THE TOWN WAS STILL
TEN MINUTES SILENCE OBSERVED WHAKATANE PAYS RESPECTS TO LATE PRIME MINISTER The ten minutes silence observed by the Post Office in all its branches on Saturday morning was observed also by business houses, traffic and shoppers in the town in paying respects to the memory of the late Prime Minister, tlie Right Honourable M. J. Savage. Shortly after 9 o'clock the town became extraordinarily quiet, only .an isolated vehicle moving in the •streets and pedestrians seemingly • disappearing. "Presenting the quietness of a Sunday morning, Whakatane, to use an expression overbeard, was like a town of the dead. The staffs of institutions where business docs not normally commence till 9 o'clock Avaited outside 11V. groups and for at least part of the ten minutes observance local business houses did not trade. The absence of all noise made it possible to hear the "Dead March" on several radios as the cortege pro •ceeded .to the Wellington railway station, and the music, with the town apparently deserted, added to Ihe .solemnity of the occasion. Whakatane .fittingly observed the passing of a great man.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 141, 1 April 1940, Page 5
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184THE TOWN WAS STILL Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 141, 1 April 1940, Page 5
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