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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 7 (December 15, 1926)

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[Reprinted by permission from the “Lyttelton Times”].

Last week it was mother's birthday. There has been so much talk in the papers lately about Mothers' Days, and people doing things to show how much they appreciate their mother, that in a big family like ours the idea takes hold. So we decided to have a special celebration of mother's birthday. We thought it a fine idea. It made us all realise how much mother had done for us for years, and all the efforts and sacrifice that she had made for our sake.

So we decided that we'd make it a great day, a holiday for all the family, and do everything we could to make mother happy. Father decided to take a holiday from his office so as to help in celebrating the day, and my sister Anna and I stayed home from college classes, and Mary and my brother Will stayed home from High School.

It was our plan to make it a day just like Christmas or any big holiday, and so we decided to decorate the house with flowers and with mottoes over the mantlepieces, and all that kind of thing. We got mother to make mottoes and arrange the decorations, because she always does it at Christmas.