PEACE CELEBRATIONS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 171, 14 April 1919, Page 6

PEACE CELEBRATIONS

THE DETAILED ARRANGEMENTS.

In view of tho imminent possibility of the official consummation of peace a meeting of the Citizens' Celebration Committee was held en Friday evening in the Town Hall. As already announced, tho celebrations' ivill extend over three days, Sunday being devoted to religious services in the Basin Reserve mid Town Hall, wliieh will be definitely arranged later. On the Monday the proceedings will commence- with a gigantic procession which, it is hoped, will be on a scale never before attempted in Wellington. A special committee has been set up to make all arrangements for a representative naval, military, and civil procession, which will leave Government Buildings at 10 a.m., and proceed through the chief thoroughfares- In Newtown Park. The procession will form no under th.i direction of Colonel ('ampbell. Major Andrews, and Captain Bell.

A decoration committee will interview shopkeepers, and. will arrnngo g( I (-rally for the decoration of the streets through which the procession will pass. In this connection the co-operation of all "will 1m sought, nnd it is anticipated that the result will be one worthy of the city and of the occasion. An endeavour will be made to secure some measure of uniformity.

At Newtown Park on the Monday afternoon a sports programme will bo carried out, the Athletic Association to arrange this feature. The Civil Service ladles are already training for :i Special fixture, whi'.'h will be iiniriue for Weill, glon. Thorp will he numerous other nil ructions a I Hip Park, but the idea of 11 naval and military tournament has had to be abandoned.

In the evening a big patriotic concert will be held in tho Town Hall, and the Kntprtainraent Commiitee will arrange for numerous open-air concerts.

One special function, which should add greatly to the gaiety, will be a confetti battle.

Tho greater part of Tuesday will be given over to the children under the management of the Headmasters' Association, assisted l\v teachers from the various schools. On Tuesday evening there will be a torchlight procession from tho Oovoniineat Buildings lo Oriental flay, where the bands will be massed. T'roin a hulk moored off Oripntal Bay there will v bc an elaborate display of lireworks, ft is also hoped to arrange for n chain of bonfires on lh». hills around Wellington. In the latter connection Superintendent Tait (of tho Fire Brigade), Messrs. J. Doyle. ?,. Lawson, and I). M'.lCenzie will he asked to net a-s a committee. The latter two will represent the Boy Scouts, who, it is hoped, will give assistance. There will be no arches. From information placed before tli-. 1 committee it was shown that arches would be very exnensive. and quite unsatisfactory unless lh.i weather was good.

An emergency committee has been appointed lo deal with an alternative scheme should the weather be unfavourable.