MOURNING IN NEW ZEALAND.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVII, Issue LVIII, 10 May 1910, Page 5

MOURNING IN NEW ZEALAND.

MEMORIAL SERVICES NEXr SUNDAY. PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR. WELLINGTON, May 9. His Excellency's proclamation provides the following observances as to mourning: — (1) All ministers of religion and all congregations are invited on Sunday next, the 15th inst., and also on the day appointed for the funeral of his late Majesty, to hold solemn services of public worship and mourning on behalf of the people of the Dominion. (2) The New Zealand Ensign, with a scarf of crape attached to the flagstaff one foot above tho flag, shaH be displayed at half-mast on all public buildings in the Dominion till sunset each day and until sunset of the day appointed for the funeral. (3) AH ships in the various harbors " of the Dominion are invited to display 1 their ensigns at half-mast each day

'until and including the day of the funeral. (4) All officers of the Government are enjoined to wear mourning until further notified, and all other subjects of his late Majesty are requested to do the same in such manner as their loyalty and feelings direct. (5) And generally until after the day of the funeral it is enjoined that all festivities of a public nature be suspended? and that on that day all places of business and public entertainment be closed.