SUNDAY ARMISTICE SERVICES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 254, 26 October 1928, Page 16

SUNDAY ARMISTICE SERVICES.

EARLIER MORNING CHURCH.

TWO MINUTES' SILENCE AT 11 A.M.

In a communication regarding the general observance of Armistice Day this year, the Prime Minister points out that the whole Empire has united since the year 1918 in commemorating Armisstice Day by a solemn silence of two minutes, beginning at the hour of 11 a.m. in each country, Dominion ami dependency. His Majesty lias expressed the wish that in this present year, when Armistice Day falls on Sunday, a service of commemoration should be held in the churches, and the Government of New Zealand trusts that the several denominations throughout the Dominion will agree to partly devote their morning services on Sunday, November 11, to that object. If those services commenced, as is usual, at 11 a.m., it would be difficult to observe equally the precedent of silent commemoration at the same hour. For that reason the special service at Westminster Abbey, at which the King will be present, has been, by His Majesty's desire, appointed to commence at 10.45 a.m. During that service, at the hour of 11 a.m., the solemn silence will be observed. The New Zealand Government trusts that the Dominion churches will agree to arrange that on Sunday, November 11, the morning services shall com-! mence not later tnan 10.45 a.m., and that in the course of those services the several congregations may be invited to rise at 11 a.m. and silence be observed for two minutes. In cities or boroughs in which the trams are running ou a Sunday, it is desired that the trams should also stop for two minutes at 11 a.m. The Government trv.sts that all those who are unable to attend a church service on that date will, in accordance with the precedent followed since 15)18, observe solemn silence for two minutes at 11 a.m. on that date.