DAFFODIL DAY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 445, 29 August 1928, Page 6

DAFFODIL DAY

INSTRUCTIONS TO STALLHOLDERS The following instructions to Scouts and Cubs assisting with the sale of flower-s on Daffodil Day have been issued from District Headquarters.: Scouts and Cubs should realise the necessity of collecting flowers. We wish to be self-supporting as far as flowers are concerned and we have thirty stalls in our charge. Every Scout and Cub in Auckland is expected to be out and doing his best to collect and sell. Troops having a surplus of boys should send the surplus (and some flowers if possible) to Scout Headquarters. The District Commissioner will visit as many stalls as possible during the day. Headquarters office will be closed for ordinary Scouting business on Thursday and Friday and will be converted into a flower receiving depot, remaining open util 11 p.m. on Thursday, and reopening at 7.30 a.m. on Friday. Stall holders should ring headquarters for fresh supplies of flowers at least half an hour before they are required and all money should be remitted to headquarters as soon as possible after 6 p.m. on Friday so that totals may be computed.

THE BRAZEN PALACE

Among the many wonders of the ruined city of Anuradhapura, in Ceylon, are the remains of the great “Brazen Palace,” as it is called. The palace, of course, is now a ruin, but there are still to be seen standing 1,600 pillars ’of granite, on which the building was supported in the old days. These pillars were once covered with beaten bronze, and extend over an area of ground of about 250 feet square. You can well imagine the size of this magnificent palace, and how beautiful all those bronze pillars must have looked.

IN ROUEN

The city of Rouen is to redeem itself from a great stain. It is transforming the corner of the market-place where Joan of Arc was burned. The corner has always been very shabby, one of the wretchedest spots in the world for so sac.red a place, and here a new statue of Joan is to be set up.