GISBORNE WELCOMES THE NEWS OF GERMANY’S UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER WITH UNBOUNDED ENTHUSIASM AND REJOICING. A VIEW OF THE GAILY DECORATED PROCESSION, WHICH WAS ONE MILE AND A-HALF IN LENGTH, PASSING ALONG GLADSTONE ROAD, EN ROUTE TO VICTORIA DOMAIN, WHERE A GREAT PATRIOTIC MEETING WAS HELD BY THE DELIGHTED RESIDENTS OF THE TOWN AND SUBURBS. THE PROCESSION WAS OF A MOST ELABORATE CHARACTER, BEING REPRESENTATIVE OF EVERY BUSINESS, PROFESSION, TRADE, BODY, LODGE, SOCIETY AND ASSOCIATION IN THE DISTRICT, WHILE THE CITY BAND ENLIVENED PROCEEDINGS. IN ADDITION TO THE LARGE NUMBER WHO MARCHED ON FOOT—THE MAJORITY OF THEM IN FANCY COSTUME AND CARRYING FLAGS—THERE WAS A GREAT RALLY OF DECORATED MOTOR CARS AND OTHER VEHICLES, WHICH ASSISTED IN MAKING THE PEACE DAY CELEBRATION THE MOST MEMORABLE FUNCTION HELD IN GISBORNE. A FEATURE OF THE JOYOUS PEACE DAY CELEBRATIONS HELD IN GISBORNE.—RETURNED SOLDIERS TAKING PART IN THE PATRIOTIC PROCESSION IN GLADSTONE ROAD. OVER 170 OF GISBORNE’S SOLDIERS WHO HAD RETURNED FROM THE FRONT MARCHED AT THE HEAD OF THE SPECTACULAR PROCESSION AND WERE ACCORDED AN ENTHUSIASTIC OVATION ALL ALONG THE ROUTE.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1492, 28 November 1918, Page 7

GISBORNE WELCOMES THE NEWS OF GERMANY’S UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER WITH UNBOUNDED ENTHUSIASM AND REJOICING. A VIEW OF THE GAILY DECORATED PROCESSION, WHICH WAS ONE MILE AND A-HALF IN LENGTH, PASSING ALONG GLADSTONE ROAD, EN ROUTE TO VICTORIA DOMAIN, WHERE A GREAT PATRIOTIC MEETING WAS HELD BY THE DELIGHTED RESIDENTS OF THE TOWN AND SUBURBS. THE PROCESSION WAS OF A MOST ELABORATE CHARACTER, BEING REPRESENTATIVE OF EVERY BUSINESS, PROFESSION, TRADE, BODY, LODGE, SOCIETY AND ASSOCIATION IN THE DISTRICT, WHILE THE CITY BAND ENLIVENED PROCEEDINGS. IN ADDITION TO THE LARGE NUMBER WHO MARCHED ON FOOT—THE MAJORITY OF THEM IN FANCY COSTUME AND CARRYING FLAGS—THERE WAS A GREAT RALLY OF DECORATED MOTOR CARS AND OTHER VEHICLES, WHICH ASSISTED IN MAKING THE PEACE DAY CELEBRATION THE MOST MEMORABLE FUNCTION HELD IN GISBORNE.

A FEATURE OF THE JOYOUS PEACE DAY CELEBRATIONS HELD IN GISBORNE.—RETURNED SOLDIERS TAKING PART IN THE PATRIOTIC PROCESSION IN GLADSTONE ROAD. OVER 170 OF GISBORNE’S SOLDIERS WHO HAD RETURNED FROM THE FRONT MARCHED AT THE HEAD OF THE SPECTACULAR PROCESSION AND WERE ACCORDED AN ENTHUSIASTIC OVATION ALL ALONG THE ROUTE.