PEACE CELEBRATIONS.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15067, 9 May 1919, Page 4

PEACE CELEBRATIONS.

fUnited Peess Association.}

t>, -* 7i •■■ Wellington, May 8. Ihe following statement was made'lra bm James Allen to-day with reference to' itae time of commencing peace celebra- ; tions :— |, "Cabinet has agreed that after wo hear that peace has teen signed ifc would be better for the local autho/itieg not to commence celebrations on tho next succeeding Sunday, But on the Sunday after that—in other words, on i,he b-unday week following receipt of advice, mat will give a week or more, bo thafc they may have time to make prepare turns. . '.'V\e memorandum issued by the; Minister of Internal Affairs still stands m other respects. Celebrations will 6© continued on Monday and Tuesday, .-buts tiie v are postponed for a week. Should' any information come from! *he Imperial Government indicating that it has adopted any definite date for the celebration of peace, it is still open foil us to reconsider the question, and wo very likely would do so in order to come into line with the Imperial Government.-"