PEACE CELEBRATIONS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 93, 14 January 1919, Page 6

PEACE CELEBRATIONS

DISCUSSING THE PROGRAMME. A meeting was held yesterday of the committee which has been deputed' by -the City Council to make the preliminary arrangements for the public celebration of peace. The • City Council authorised, the Finance Committee of t'ho council to take this work in hand, and to-call to their assistance represontatives of other bodies who would be prepared to' take part in the official celebrations. Among others summoned to the meeting were delegates from the Harbour Board, the Patriotic Society, and the headmasters of schools. The meeting was in private,' but somd account of the proposals under consideration was given by tho Mayor after the meeting. • The celebrations will extend over two daysj The first day will be a Sunday, and it-is hoped that there will he special services of thanksgiving in all the churches, both morning and evening. In. the afternoon there will be a big gathering of. citizens in the Basin Reserve, with massed bands, singing by massed choirs, and by children. In the evening there will bo a united service in the Town Hall at 8.30.

Monda-y will be a fete day. The Town Hall will be decked for carnival, with arches i;i the streets, banners, flags, and decorations on buildings. In the evening tl'*re will be illuminations and fireworks, the latter to be fired from a hulk monred off Oriental Bay, a position in which they may bo seen by crowds from tho Oriental Bay foreshore. During the day there will be a monster procession as one part of the programme. These aro only some of the items of the programmo, which exists only in skeleton form. The committee considered all these proposals, and laid the train for the organisation of the festival. A special committee was set up to arrange the procession. Captain Munro, of tho Harbour Board staff, has been appointed marshal 'of the iprocessjpn,