PROCLAMATION CEREMONY AT WELLINGTON .

Marlborough Express, Volume LIII, Issue 187, 4 July 1919, Page 5

PROCLAMATION CEREMONY AT WELLINGTON .

LESSONS iOF.'^HE WAR.

WEELTNGTQN, /Jiily 4

Proclamations 'from His "'Majesty the King, announcing that 'Britain and Germany were . at 'Li;':t at peace were read from thg, steps"df the new. Parliamentary fßuildings -yesterday! afternoon by his Exc^llervcy the' De-X.uty-Governor-General i (Sir 'Robert Stout). Ministers'df the Grown were present, also the Mayor -of fellington. Defence Headquarters arid the ri-ilitary generally! were represented >by practically all the tffficers of the staff and those still attached to the Expeditionary Force. 'The: only troops paraded -were a company of Wellington College CGadefcs. "There -were' about 1500 people present. "The proceedings were most simple. 'The Deputy-Governor^GeneraT-iwas ac■eeided a general ealitte'by the< cadets, ißjtao proclamations wereiread, *»Efi3ithe •company sang the 'National 'Anthem. "It had probably been the intention of tihe Acting Prime Minister or some-' one else to call, for 'cheers, t;b<iit the «wd did not Wait ;for the < call, ' fewrsting out inta spontaneous and he-arty ch-jering. After reading the 'text of proclamations Sir Robert rStout said that hc'liad read two proclamations sent to €he Government off ~"New Zealand 'by ifcfee King, the first proclaiming i that -peace had at last 'been c'deelare'd, and the other inviting those vreiigioWsly inclined to tdke part in a thanksgiving service on {Sunday next. He was ( sure^tho people «Jf rZea-| land were aTi delighted that peaces had/come, and that they could, look;: forwartl with faith, hcpe, andicour-, ngeto the future believfe|r that now the war''had ended—a war such as | the-worM'had never seen—there weref 'dnysfd'f ifteace and prosperity ifor the{ nation and for the human race. 'He' 'hoped 'thitt the war had ihelped toi 'teach fill people that it was their dutyi as citizens (df the Empire to Vdo What' they could to ni.n'ke the life'.-df the1 nation and tfihe life of humanity 'bet-, ter, greater, and more glorkros Jthan ; 'ii'had been in the past. | "The war "has a lesson for ms, a 'lesson which 1 am sure will never bel .'forgotten,'" saM Sir Robei't. <U'l do! asik our young people to nppiecitite! 1 the 'lesson it tenc'lies—'that if « are! to exist as a natien we must see tiiat; we those 'services which are for wie -uplifting of humanity, so "feat! we may have-peace and happiness and prosperity 'inborn* lives." * ' j. Sir James Allen, and the Hon. W. i I}. sS. Mac'Bonald als& spoke, on the j lines (<$ vesent spaeches. j