Armistice Day Contrasts
Si-—The two-minute silence in honour of Armistice Day and all its implications fell on one part of the city at least with an impressive cessation of movement and sound. Standing at a window overlooking an ordinarily busy thoroughfare, there was a contrast presented to me in the very middle of the pause in yesterday’s activities that may be worth recording. A. youth in charge of a big delivery-van, who could have been little more than a child of tender years in 1918, stood bare-headed, by his charge till the silence ended. A woman, driving a not inexpensive motorcar, came sounding her hooter, with complete disregard of the sign “Hospital" displayed in full view near the corner, and then sounded it a second time, quite unnecessarily, after rounding the turn, probably in sheer surprise that more thoughtful people had remembered to observe the occasion and that she had all the road to wander over, still heedless.—l am, etc, w LONE PINE. Wellington, November 11.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 43, 14 November 1932, Page 11
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166Armistice Day Contrasts Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 43, 14 November 1932, Page 11
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