EASTER AND PEACE
WILL THERE BE A. CLASH?
Many people are at present making their arrangements for the Easter holidays,, which commence on Good Friday, April 18, and extend, as a rule, until Wednesday, April 23, As a recent cable message has nominated Easter Day (April 20) as the date on which the preliminary peace will ho signed, the question was raised with the Mayor (Mr. J. ■P. Luke) -yesterday as to whether, in (he event of peace being signed on that date, the arniiigemeuts to celebrate the occasion would be carried out in Wellington according to tho plan laid down by llii 31 mister of Internal Affairs (tho Hon. G. W. Russell), viz., the Sunday after pence is proclaimed to bo devoted (o -solemn religious services, the Monday to a great imblic demonstration, and tho Tuesday to a- children's celebration. It has liecn uoiiited out that if the.peace treaty be signed at Easter, and the Minister's intention' is given expression to, it will mean that there will bo holidays from Good Fridav to the succeeding Tuesday or Wednesday in the oiie week, and another'cessation of business for two days in the following week, concessions which may entail (considerable inconvenience and expense to ninny business people.
The Mayor said that he had not gono very closely into ,tho matter of dates, lmt he war. inclined to believe that it wns finite likely that Easter Day—a day held to be holy by all nations—would- be selected for the signing of the great treaty of peace; but, of coarse, they had no definite knowledge on the point, and cuikl not make final Arrangements until the news was more explicit. Some authorities even held the idea that Germany would not sign the treaty, but that was scarcely credible. In the meanTime, however, he could not say anything about a possible clash with E-istcr. With'him it promised to be a particularly busy timo, owing to the arrival back of so many troops from the front, and the proximity of the date to the Mayoral election (on April 30).
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 166, 8 April 1919, Page 7
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344EASTER AND PEACE Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 166, 8 April 1919, Page 7
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