TWO MINUTES’ SILENCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 295, 10 November 1934, Page 7

TWO MINUTES’ SILENCE.

ARMISTICE DAY TO-MORROAV

Sixteen years ago to-morrow, on November 11, 1918, there was signed the armistice which brought to a ces-satiffi-Aflje hostilities between Ger•nJLAiyJ the Allies in the Great AVar. Sj-jSsm win the preservation of two minutes of silence at 11 a.m. on each anniversary has grown up fits a national obligation to mark the sense of thanksgiving which prevailed tho end of the war Traffic will cease running for two minutes at 11 a.m to-morrow, when it is anticipated that the public will respond as usual by maintaining a strict silence. Starting at 10.40 a.m., Padre L. T. Olds of Napier, who was in camp at Rangiotu with the Rifle Brigade, in the early part of the AVar, and is wellknown to returned soldiers, will conduct a short public service at the Memorial in the Square, concluding with the two minutes’ silence and the National Anthem. , , The Mayor (Mr A. E. Mansford), City Councillors, representatives of the R S A., Officers’ Club, South African veterans, 5 Legion of Frontiersmen and other organisations will be present.