EMPIRE DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 May 1918, Page 3

EMPIRE DAY.

VICTORIA LEAGUE CELEBRATIONS. The local branch of the Victoria League has hit upon a happy idea for the celebration of Empire Day, Monday, June 3. The league ha s just received from the Victoria League, in London, a set of beautiful slides of war pictures, and it is proposed to exhibit these at a matinee in Everybody's Theatre, wfoich lias been kindly placed at the league's disposal by the directors. In addition, a number of industrial pictures will be shown. The matinee will be strictly limited to school children. Mrs. Burgess, who has the organisation in hand, has already approaehed the varigus teachers, who are lending enthusiastic assistance. It is proposed, if passible, to arrange a procession of the children, each of whom will carry a dag. The various slides will be explained aa shown. A charge of 3d admission will be made, and the whole proceeds will be sent as a gift from the children t>f New Plymouth to the children at Home—the orphans of soldiers and sailors- Gifts of this kind have been previously sent, and that they are appreciated is shown oy the following extract from a Harrow paper:—

''Harrow and Tar&n&kL—A delightful proof .r the sympathy which united the j Old Country with Britons oversea, and to which the Victoria League helps to give expression, has lately been shown. Early in the New Year, Mr. Ilallam received a cheque for 7 from tlie children of Chetwode School, New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand, to be expended for children who had lost theis fathers in the war. A portion of the gift waa set apart for children elsewhere, and, by the help of Miss Dawson', assistant-secretary to tlie Harrow brandh, £4 10s has been spent in providing warm clothing for 57 Harrow children, made orphans by the war. This is the second gift of the kind sent for orphaned boys and girls of Harrow by Victoria League children of New Plymouth. A year ago they sent 80 small garments, made, for the most part, by themselves."