EMPIRE DAY
i Observance At Stratford j Flags were flown on public build- ■ ings in Stratford to-day in honour of I Empire Day, a British Imperial cele_ i brat ion held annually on May 24, the i ; anniversary of Queen Victoria’s biilh- . day. The first official celebration was j h Id in 1904. The movement for thfe 1 observance of the day was. staiUedi in j 1.902 and unremittingly carried on by ' the Earl of Meath, whose aim was to In' induce into schools a training that (would produce patriotic citizens of I the Empire. At th? Stratford Primary School I I this morning, the headmaster, Mr L. I IJ. Furrie, in a short address to the I (children, explained the significance h of Empire Day.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 441, 24 May 1937, Page 4
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126EMPIRE DAY Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 441, 24 May 1937, Page 4
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