ARMISTICE OBSERVANCE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 281, 12 November 1929, Page 5

ARMISTICE OBSERVANCE.

(To The Editor.) Sir,—May I be allowed to take up a small space in your paper in order to draw attention to what seems to me an important matter. Although according to your newspaper reporter, in some parts of Hastings the anniversary of Armistice Day was reverently kept, there were other parts, notably that at which I found myself at 11 o’clock where absolutely no notice was taken whatever—people were talking, cars were running and being started, and as far as I could see. nobody* stood still. Ono does not care to think that i?"

growing callous and forgetful of the lives laid down for them so that they cannot spare even two minutes out of the whole year in which to give them a thought, so it must be that thev had not noticed the time, and I would like to suggest that in future some signal be given which can be heard all over the town. Perhaps the services of a bugler could be obtained for the main street or a fog-signal could be let off from t!A> railway or tho church hell could clang out for a moment, or . a factory horn could be sounded—something which could bo arranged beforehand to warn tho people to think that the moment of silence had come. It is distressing to think that the custom should bo allowed to die out. Yours faithfully, M.D.G.