QUEEN ALEXANDRA.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16895, 27 November 1925, Page 12

QUEEN ALEXANDRA.

AILAIOiRIAL SERVICE AT AUCKLAND. (l’e- Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. .Memorial services were held at St. Mary’s Cathedral and St. Matthew’s Church and Synagogue, Archbishop Averill preaching at St. Mary’s, where one hundred men, with officers, Iruin three warships in port, attendee;. SERVICE AT WELLINGTON. (P< > ociation.) WELLINGTON, this day. Synchronising as nearly as practicable with the solemn observance at Westminster, special memorial services were held this, morning in several of the churches, while the- Government and municipal and other offices reverently closed for three hours from 10.30 a.m. In accordance with instructions received fiom Home, a Royal salute of forty minute guns were fired from Alount Cook barracks, commencing at 11 o’clock. Similarly the bell in the Post Office clock tower tolled at- intervals of one minute for ten minutes after 11 o’clock. The request for a cessation of traffic for a period of five minutes from the snmo hour was partly oh served, all (he trams being stopped. The Alayor issued a request this morning for the shops to close, but advice came too late lo be widely circulated, and onlv a few retailers closed their premises. All Government and municipal offices, however, and many places of business were closed from 10.30 a.m. until after lunch. Memorial services were held at 11 o’clock at St. Paul’s Pro-Cathedral, where State and Governmental and other officials attended, and at St, Peter’s and St. Mark's.