NEW ZEALAND’S MOURNING

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 100, 22 January 1936, Page 16

NEW ZEALAND’S MOURNING

Death of His Majesty King George V.

ORDER JN-COUNCIL GAZETTED

Services in all Churches on Sunday Next

A special meeting of the Executive Council, with the Prime Minister, Hon. M. J. Savage, presiding, was held yesterday afternoon, when consideration was given to the question of a public observance as to mourning the death of his Majesty King George V. Ministers of religion and congregations are asked to hold solemn services of public worship on Sunday next and on the day of the funeral. It is also requested that until the day after the funeral all festivities of a public nature be suspended.

Later, in the evening, the following Order in Council was published in a Gazette Extraordinary:—

His Excellency the Governor-Gen-eral, having been advised of the lamented death of hie Most Gracious Majesty King George the Fifth, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby enjoin as follows upon his late Majesty’s loving and lamenting subjects in the Dominion of New Zealand in token of their grief and sorrow for the great loss the Empire has sustained: —

1. AH ministers of religion and all congregations are invited on Sunday next, the twenty-sixth instant, and also on the day appointed for the funeral of his late Majesty, to hold solemn services of public worship and mourning on behalf of the people of the Dominion.

2. The New Zealand ensign, with a scarf of crape attached to the flagstaff one foot above the flag, shall be displayed at half-mast on all public buildings in the Dominion till sunset each day and until eunset of the day appointed for the funeral, 3. All ships in the various harbours of the Dominion are invited to display their ensigns at half-mast each day until and including the day of the funeral.

4. All officers of the Government are enjoined to wear mourning until further notified, and all other subjects of his late Majesty are requested to do the same, in such manner as their loyalty and feelings direct.

5. And, generally, until after the day of the funeral, it is enjoined that all festivities of a public nature be suspended, and that on that day all jflaces of business and public entertainment be closed.