EMPIRE DAY.
Received May 24, 11.21 p.m. SYDNEY, May 24. There was fine weather for Empire Day. The celebrations were general throughout the State, and Empire Day is steadily gaining in popularity. The city and shipping were gaily decorated. Badges were everywhere in evidence.
Appropriate speeches were made by the leading citizens at the gatherings, the most imposing being a combined demonstration of 3,500 children at Victoria Barracks. General Gordon and others delivered patriotic addresses. The interesting ceremony of handing over the flagstaff and flag presented to the City ,by the Women's Branch of the Empire League, erected on the Macquarie Reserve, took place on the spot where the fh*st proclamation of the British possession was made. Throughout the day and night bands stationed at various parts of the city rendered patriotic selections. Great crowds viewed the illumination of the Queen's Statue and some of the public buildings and warships. Received May 24, 11.56 p.m. OTTAWA, May 24. Empire Day was observed at the Ontario schools yesterday. Twentyfive thousand School children participated in a procession at Toronto, and decorated the Queen Victoria monument in Queen's Park. Received May 24, 11.58 p.m. LONDON, May 24. Eight hundred thousand school children in London and five million throughout the United Kingdom took part in the ceremony of saluting the flag to-day.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8448, 25 May 1907, Page 5
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218EMPIRE DAY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8448, 25 May 1907, Page 5
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