PEACE CELEBRATIONS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15862, 5 July 1919, Page 3

PEACE CELEBRATIONS.

THE SUBSIDY QUESTION.

GOVERNMENT'S DECISION.

(Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 4. The Minister of Internal Affairs states that the Government has decided that subsidies provided by the State on moneys collected or voted by local authorities for the celebration of Peace shall be paid only on sums expended for celebrations on the official day (July ISth). The Minister said also that railway services for the occasion would be provided only for July 19th, and. these services would have" to be kept down to the minimum owing to the shortage of coal. MESSAGE TO TEE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. NAPIER, July 4. The following message to the Presbyterian Church has been issued by the Moderator:—ln accordance with’ the gracious advice and exhortation of his Majesty the King, I hereby call upon the ministers, missionaries and people of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand to observe next Lord’s Day, the 6th of July, as a day of solemn national thanksgiving for peace for participating, in their several places of worship, in the great , act of common adoration and praise appointed for all parte of the Empire.—W, Gray Dixon, Moderator. CHRISTCHURCH TO OBSERVE THREE DAYS. CHRISTCHURCH, July 4. At a meeting of the City Council this afternoon, the Mayor referred to the latest proposals for the ■ Peace celebrations, and said he had invited the citizens to observe a holiday on Monday as well as Saturday. It would be impossible to hold the children’s demonstration on Saturday. The Council endorsed the Mayor’s proposal.