VICTORY PARADE
I see the Mayor intends having a victory parade when peace is officially declared. Why could we not have had something like that on iVJ day? The Mayor said it would take a lot of planning to have a parade (they had one in Christchurch), but surely it did not need much planning to arrange for everybody to march to the Domain, and there to offer a prayer of thanksgiving and sing a few well known hymns. Then the young people could have danced to the bands. Admittedly, the grounds were a bit soft, but better damp shoes than broken heads. The music was wasted in Queen Street, as we couldn't hear it for the rabble. It was with a very full heart that I listened to the announcement that the war was over. There must have been thousands like myself who felt they had to get into the open and lift up their grateful hearts. I like to see the young people enjoying themselves, but I was saddened and disgusted by what I saw last Wednesday afternoon in Queen Street. Did any of them give a thought to the boys who had given their lives and the sad folks who were mourning their loved ones? Let us have a parade, but we can never reproduce the feelings we had on the day the news came through. A MOTHER.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 199, 23 August 1945, Page 4
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