ARMISTICE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 103, 29 October 1923, Page 8

ARMISTICE DAY

REQUEST TO THE CHURCHES FOR EARLIER SERVICES. •

In reference to the' celebration of Armistice Day, the following statement was issued to-day from the office of the .Act-ing-Prime Minister "(the Hon. Sir Francis Bell):— The whole Empire has united since 1918 in commemorating Armistice .[Day by a solemn silence of two minutes'; beginning at the'hour of 11 a.m. in each country, dominion, and dependency /-His '; Majesty has expressed the wish that in .•' this present .year, when .Armistice, Day I falls on Sunday, a service of commemor- \ ation should he held in the churches,' and the Government, of New Zealand trusts that the several denominations throughout the Dominion will agree to i partly devote their morning services on ' Sunday, the 11th November, to that j object. If those services commenced, as is usual, at 11 a.m., it would be difficult to observe equally the ..precedent of silent commemoration at the same hour. For that reason the special service at Westminster Abbey, at which the King will b e present, has been by His Majesty's desire appointed to commence at 10.45 a.m. During that service at the hour of 11 a.m. the solemn silence will be observed. The New Zealand Government trusts that the Dominion churches will agree to arrange that on Sunday,.the 11th November, the morning services shall commence not later than 10.45 a.m. and that in the course of those services the several congregations may be invited to rise at 11 a.m. and silence be observed for two minutes.