DAY OF MOURNING

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 102, 24 January 1936, Page 12

DAY OF MOURNING

Arrangements For Tuesday GOVERNMENTS REQUEST The following announcement by the Prime Minister wifi be published in a special “Gazette” to-day:— The interment of his late Majesty King George V will take place on Tuesday, January 28, and that day will be observed as a day of national mourning. The courts of justice and all Government offices throughout the Dominion will be closed on that day, and the people of New Zealand arc respectfully requested to observe 'the day as a close day of mourning until 6 p.m. and to suspend all business other than essential services accordingly. It is earnestly desired that all employers pay their employees in full, for that day. SYMPATHY WITH QUEEN Messages From Dominion A cablegram in the following terms has been sent to her Majesty tbe Queen by the Jewish communities of New Zealand: — “The Jewish communities of New Zealand respectfully tender to your Majesty and tbe members of the Royal Family their heartfelt sympathy and grief at the lamented passing of their late beloved Sovereign.” The message is signed by Mr. David Markham (Wellington), Mr. David Nathan (Auckland), Mr. Phiueas Selig (Christchurch), and Mr. David Phillips (Dunedin), each in his capacity as president of the Jewish organisation in his own centre.

The following message has been addressed to the Governor-General for the Garibaldi Club by its president, Mr. John Paino: —“It is with very deep sorrow that the members of the Garibaldi Club learn of the death of the King. Honoured as a leader, and revealing himself through a long and illustrious reign as a man of great wisdom and character, he was loved and respected for his simple, direct and lovable personality. “During his reign his Majesty often showed appreciation of Italian subjects under British rule, and the Italian people generally, and his wise and beneficent rule made a great impression upon all. “The deepest and most heartfelt sympathy of every member of the Garibaldi Club goes out to the Queen and other members of the Royal Family in their hour of sorrow.”

A special meeting of the council of the New Zealand Law Society was held yesterday, when it was decided to ask the Governor-General to forward to the Queen the following message:—"That the New Zealand Law Society records its deep regret at the death of our beloved Sovereign King George V, and respectfully desires to express its deepest sympathy with the Queen and the members of the Royal Family in their bereavement.”

The Dominion Council of the League of Nations Union, of New Zealand has asked the Prime Minister, through the Secretary of State for the Dominions, to forward on its' behalf expression of deep sorrow at the death of King George V, and its sympathy with the Queen and the Royal Family In their bereavement.

Mr. Claude H. Weston, Consul for the Netherlands, has addressed the following letter to the Prime Minister of New Zealand:—“On behalf of the Dutch residents in New Zealand, I wish to express to you their most sincere sympathy in the loss sustained by New Zealand as one of the Commonwealth of British Nations, in the lamented death of his Majesty King George V. Holland and the United. Kingdom have been associated by historical and social ties for so long that a national bereavement such as this stirs deep notes of sympathy in both countries. To the Dutch people I represent in New Zealand, the King’s death has brought a feeling of sorrow no less personal than that felt by their adopted countrymen.” <