PEACE ILLUMINATIONS.
To the Editor of the "Timaru Herald." Sir, —Many people will have noted that one of the peace celebrations in the Old' Country ,-s tu take the form of a chain of bonfires round the coast. Coming ut stieh an opportune ' time, right in the middle of the threshing Reason, might ! make th<? following suggestion to the fanners of Canterbury and Otago: That on pence night at a (liven hour, sav. 8 o'clock, they
eet v fire to every spare straw stacV on their • respect Vg faints. Travelers in the country at nijrht tirrie will of ton sec 'tW- "hire gh'eft off by one sinjrle stack, but what the illuminative effect of the burn incr of t?n«? of thousands of ftnc-ks simultaneously out Canterbury aml Otnnjo would b° ; is almt'at bevond conmjticn. espfcaHv if *bo nieht hapr>eW a d +o be fclnndv. Might I iwrattiefld fie Pence Celebration Com'-ni i- p-'tifl.i/'nr +.b»> proposal, find "I won'd Hk" ti some comment., per Hn? mflium o f ynur i column a, oil the suggestion.—l nin, etc., T F. STONE. Metlivcr, March 28. *
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Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16799, 1 April 1919, Page 2
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