HOLIDAYS.
Whether Dominion Day will become a permanently popular holiday remains to be aeen, remarks the Auckland "Herald." One day which ought to be kept, and is nut, is October 6th, an epoch-making day in our national history—the day when Captain Cook rediscovered the country of which, with wise foresight, he speedily took formal possession for England. The definite cultivation of patriotism does not receive the attention it ought in the Dominion, and the Government should look to it. When the whole community are asked to keep secular holidays, as distinct from the Christmas, Good Friday, and Easter, it should be on grounds in which all are interested, and some greater effort should be made than is made to drive home the importance of the occasion, and to enforce the lessons it is designed to teach.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3040, 10 November 1908, Page 4
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136HOLIDAYS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3040, 10 November 1908, Page 4
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