PRESENTATION OF FLAG.
A MESSAGE FROM FRANCE. On Friday morning the Prime Minister (Mr Massey) took part in a picturesque ceremony at the Hawera District High School. Two years ago the school sent a New Zealand Ensign tp a French School at Boulogne. Mr. Massey happened to be in Britain when this flag arrived, and he travelled to Boulogne and presented the flag on behalf of the Hawera children. Famous French soldiers and representatives of the British Army, as well as of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, took part in that ceremony. The French School, in its turn, sent a French flag to the Hawera School, and it was this flag that Mr. formally handed over at the ceremony.
The assembled children saluted the Union Jack and listened to the reading of the message accompanying the flag, “the same flag that has flown over Verdun—the flag of liberty, equality, and fraternity—to give a message from the hearts of the boys of France to the hearts of the boys of New Zealand.” Mr. Massey said how glad he was to meet several hundred good specimens of young Taranaki. He reminded them that Hawera had what probably was a unique distinction among New Zealand towns in having sent to the front two Jfhq WQfi the
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19210412.2.70
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, 12 April 1921, Page 8
Word count
Tapeke kupu
213PRESENTATION OF FLAG. Taranaki Daily News, 12 April 1921, Page 8
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in