THE CHILDREN’S NIGHT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 300, 17 December 1914, Page 4

THE CHILDREN’S NIGHT.

We do not think that ever before in this town there was such a great and happy gathering as that assembled in the Stratford Town Hall last evening. Some of these city writers who in purple patches have depicted the poor “white slaves” of Taranaki, ought to have been present and seen what a great company of Stratford school children is really like. The entertainment itself was a most creditable one, and—as but natural at such a time as the when red war and the clash of arms is a common theme of conversation even amongst the babes and sucklings—a strong note of patriotism was struck. The arrangement and staging of the wdiole pageant was very fine, and we congratulate both teachers and scholars on the splendid effort of last evening, Mr Philip Skoglund, Chairman of the School Committee, was a proud man last evening when he stood up to thank the parents for their attendance at the great gathering. One thing ) however, we would like to say to our good friend, and that is that though he expressed a hope a i great many more people would be present at next year’s gathering, that is an utter impossibility unless the Borough gives us a new' Town Hall very much larger than the present building. We really believe that if one more infant had been squeezed into the pack, that the bulging walls would have given way in protest}