PEACE CELEBRATIONS

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 138, 7 December 1918, Page 3

PEACE CELEBRATIONS

10 IBS EDITOn. Sir, —The recent impromptu celebrations in Wellington, following the announcement of the armistice with Germany, were marked by a lack of leadership and organisation. Joyous crowds paraded the main thoroughfares of the city in an aimless sort of manner, and expressions of joy were confined to universal smiles and hand-shakes between friends, with an outburst of desultory cheering at intervals. lam not writing in a spirit of criticism, however. lam merely anxious that when' peace is declared the celebration in. Wellington will be thoroughly organised under competent leadership. The people of Wellington are keen to mark the coming great epoch-making occasion in a worthy manner. Of this I feel sure—the spirit of our citizens is right, and it only requires competent handling to make the forthcoming peace celebrations a brilliant success. The function should be on a magnificent scale, worthy of the occasion, and as time will be required to make the necessary preparations, I would urge that a. start be made at once. The Mayor has proved a tower of strength during the last four years of travail, and he has now an opportunity of crowning his successful war work by arranging a peace demonstration on a scale worthy of the capita-1 city of the Dominion. New Zealand's eons rose to the occasion when the war clouds burst; her people now surely will not fail to rise to this occasion.—l am, etc., CITIZEN.