THE EXPECTED ARMISTICE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 41, 12 November 1918, Page 4

THE EXPECTED ARMISTICE

i 0 ■ NO NEWS RECEIVED BYTErf GOVERNMENT. No news of the signing of the armistice ; reached the Government last night. Cabinet has decided that wherever pos- ■ sible civil servants are to be released : for the remainder of the day immediately ; after the receipt of the official news that the armistice has been signed. It will ' be impossible to release all civil servants, ■ sinco some of the .public services will • have to bo maintained. ; POST, TELEGRAPH, AND TELE- ; PHONE OFFICES TO CLOSE. Tho Secretary to the General Post Of- '. fices advises that half an hour after the signal is received or given that.an ' armistice is signed, .all' post, telegraph, and telephone offices and exchanges | throughout the Dominion will close to the general public for the rest of the , day. If the signal is given late in the . evening the offices will close all the next day. Chief telegraph offices and chief telephone exchanges will reopen at 10 • p.m. on the day the signal is received. ' Automatic exchange numbers to auto- ' matic exchange numbers will be working » as usual. '■ ISLAND BAY CELEBRATIONS. The Island Bay residents intend hold- ', ing an open-air thanksgiving service and I joy meeting ai the public ~6chool from I 3.30 on the afternoon the armistice is officially announced. Hymns and songs " have been printed, and Mr. W. Brown will recite "The Day."- Mr. J. 0. Shorland will preside. The, combined ' churches will take part in the gathering. After' prayer ,by the clergy, short nd- ' dresses will .be delivered by members of J the National Ministry, the member for the district, the Mayor and councillors, | and returned soldiers. The gathering ' is expected to be the largest ever held 1 at Island Bay. MUSIC WAREHOUSES TO CLOSE FOR • A WEEK, V By Telegraph.—Prees Association. Christchurch, November 11. 3 The managers of music warehouses in 3 Christchurch have decided (o close their i premises for a week from receipt of . the news of Germany's acceptance of f armistice terms. The following arrangement has been S arrived at between the Tramways man--8 agement and tho men:—lf an armistice is 3 declared beforo 3 p.m. on any day the 8 a.m. shift men will work their cars until i) 3 p.m., at which hour all the cars will .. bo run into the sheds and tho men will not; start running the cars again until 3 ' o'clock tho following afternoon, when tho 1 usual running will be resumed. If the 7 hews comes through after 3 p.m. tho 0 cars will ]>o run up to the usual times 7 that night, but no cars at all will be i run the iollowinj day. In St. John's Church, a service of thanksgiving will bo -held in tho evening of the day on which the armistice is declared. The services will begin at S o'clock and last for one hour. A combined thanksgiving service has been arranged to bo held in St. Andrew 3 Church, AVellington Terrace, at 8 p.m. on tho day that official intimation of tho ' armistice'having boon signed is given. [' Further particulars aro given in our ad- '■ vortisiug. columns. !' Tho nttontipn of all Torritorials and " tho public is called to orders issued by '■ Colouel G. F, C. Campbell, Coast Defenco , Commander, published in this issue, in , connection with the celebrations to bo " held on receipt of advice that an armisr lice has been, signed. In connection with tho parado of Territorials for armistice celebrations, should tho signal bo sounded between midnight and '.) a.m., tho ceremony will bo hold at 1(1.30 a.m. that day, not .the succeeding day, as erroneously advertised c last night.

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