OBSERVANCE ELSEWHERE
(BJ TEI.EORAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
WANGANUI, This Day. Armistice Day anniversary was celebrated in fine weather. A general holiday was observed, the main function being the children's celebrations, postponed from the official Peace celebrations in July last. Between four and five thousand children from the town district assembled on the racecourse, where they were given lunch and afterwards suitably entertained. It was an impressive sight when the large crowd of children and adults participated in a simple memorial ceremony for the gallant dead. The march through the streets of the children was particularly fine.
HAMILTON, This Day. • Two minutes of silence in honour of the gallant dead was observed at 11 o'clock. All business was suspended.
WAIMATE, This Day.
The two minutes' silence was impressively observed. It was strangely picturesque in Court, where angry fanners were fighting out a six-year-old fencing dispute, the silence occurring in the midst ofithe cross-examination of a voluble witness.
As far as was possible, at such short notice, the-request of the King in regard to the observance of Armistics Day was given effect to ia Petone and Lower Hutt to-day.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 114, 11 November 1919, Page 7
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