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PEACE CELEBRATIONS! AMPLE TIME FOR PREPARATION.
(Per ttnited Press Association.) WELLINGTON, May 8. The following statement was made by Sir James Allen to-day with reference to the time of, commencing the peace celebrations :—" Cabinet has agreed that after we hear that peace had been signed it is better for local authorities not to commerce the celebrations on the next succeeding Sunday, "but on the Sunday after that (in other word?, on the Sunday week following the receipt cf the advice*. That will give them a week or more so that they may have feme to rcako their preparations. The memorandum issued by t>ie Minister of Internal Affairs still'stands in other respects. ;The celebrations will be continued on the Monday and Tuesday, but they are postpone:! for a week Should any information come from the Imperial Government indicating that they have adopted any definite date for the celebrations of peace, it is still open to us to reconsider the question, and we very likely would do eo in order to como into lino with the Imperial go-
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Evening Star, Issue 17038, 8 May 1919, Page 8
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Evening Star, Issue 17038, 8 May 1919, Page 8
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