ARMISTICE DAY

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21938, 12 November 1936, Page 9

ARMISTICE DAY

,» TO THE EDITOB OF THB ffiFriS. <Shy~l have spent Armistice Day in JPWtt countries and in various towns, fe nowhere have I found it so badly Jferved as in Christchurch. To-day at corner in Colombo street. Pfe the hooter sounded. Across the fed was a large clock showing l* A motor-cyclist, with his flap* fe brocket” heavily laden, immediJfey Started up his engine, and roared yw into the distance, making appar* SgT fe much noise as- possible. AnJfet motor-cycle, with side-car axfeM, this time a trade vehicle, fefel the opposite corner, and purfed Its way in the usual manner, Pits oiie was drowned by P as ®" fe motor-cars. The hooting ot fetor horns was almost continuous, Tip the passing of cars. EtWDwhile. mere pedestrians stood bared heads wishing to observe ffe. two-minutes silence 'that was HP them. The noises were not ,S]_fee to pure forgetfulness. One driver bowed the limited amount Sjw respect for the dead, by reduc■jj&tfac speed of her car to about iu ISfe an hour, but evidently did not Pt it worth while to stop ana Sfet off the engine. No doubt Wmt ntViag. drivers did so, but it waimpatient, and thoughtless nade themselves so unpieaspicuous. . . . the remedy for this P B ***"* fairs? Could it be arranged irivers and tram conductors, stop their cars tor the tw hould act as toaffic officer* lassing traffic? And where not sufficient traffic officers these noisy cars, would t good plan for all on Armistice Pay Jand y, too) to move en masse ■oadway, and there observe linutes’ silence? should at reminder for all but the » of motor-cyclists and the d of motor-drivers; and dur two minutes the Lorns should be a punishable sent state oj aßaira to jjj: vssn is in the matter.— Yours, etc., YEARS’ WAR SERVICEer 11. 1936.