N.Z. Peace Celebrations

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IX, Issue 171, 5 July 1919, Page 5

N.Z. Peace Celebrations

TO-MORROW'S THANKSGIVING SERVICES. NAPIER. Sp'-cial thanksgiving services, accompanied by appropriate sermons, will be held in all the churches at Napier and suburbs to-morrow. The Right Rev. the Moderator of th<Presbyterian General Assembly, Mr Gray Dixon, will conduct the services at St. Paul’s Presbyterian (,'iiuri-h. while the Dean of Waiapu will preach at the Cathedral in the unavoidable absence of the Bishop. A combined thanksgiving service will he held in the Napier Municipal Theatre at. 2.30 to-morrow afternoon. At 3.30 p.m. a concert will be given on the Marine Parade by the HASTINGS.

A meeting to arrange for the thanksgiving service was held at five o'clock at Hastings yesterday afternoon. Present : : The Mayor and Mr. E. 11. Williams (representing the Peace Celebration committee), and the Revs Ramsay. Mcßean. Edridge, Brocklehurst. Bennett and Captain Hayes of the Salvation Army. It ".-as decided to hold the service on the racecourse (the use of which for a'.! peace celebrations has been given bv the Jockey <?lub) at 2.30 p.m. on Sundav.

All the Revd. gentlemen named and Captain Hayes will take pait and Mr. P. Tombs has undertaken to get a choir together. Mr. M. Johnson will arrange with the Band to

play to the racecourse and to give selections there prior to the service. It the weather is unfavourable the function will be held in the Municipal Theatre. To-morrow morning, at 9 o’clock, a thanksgiving mass will be celebrated in the Hastings Cat nolle Church. On Monday, at 9 a.m., a Solemn Requiem mass «-;ii _asd for the soldiers who have fallen in the war and, on Tuesday, at 7 a.m., there will be a mass of the Holy Ghost, asking for God’s guidance in the work of reconstruction.

Peace thanksgiving services in St. Andrew’s will be conducted in the morning by Rev. P. Ramsay, in the evening by the Rev. Win. Hutchison, who has just returned after four years service as Chaplain. HAVELOCK NORTH. Special services are being held at both the Churches in Havelock. In the afternoon there will be a united service of thanksgiving in the school yard. Special hymns will be sung and the Revs. Canon Lush, R. Waugh and Mr. Jas. Holmes will take part. All the churches are advertising special thanksgiving and communion services. CELEBRATIONS ON JULY 19th. HASTINGS. The Mayor (Mr. George Ebbett) has received the following telegram from Hon. G. W. Russell, Minister for Internal Affairs, re arrangments for peace celebrations.-—“ Referring my telegram of yesterday, have now t' state Cabinet has decided Governi.4tnt subsidy will be payable only in respect of expenditure in connection with celebrations on 19th. inst. As regards railway services, soldiers and children will be carried free on trains only on 19t1>.. if the Minister of Railways can so arrange, pro vided children will only be, conveyed to nearest, town, from their place of residence, in which celebrations will be held.”