PEACE CELEBRATIONS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 245, 10 July 1919, Page 6

PEACE CELEBRATIONS

f " NO SPECIAL TRAINS LOCAL CELEBRATIONS ENCOURAGED Yesterday, the Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) handed to the Prow the following telegrams lie had received from the Minister of Internal Affairs (Hon. G. W. ■Russell) in connection with the peace .celebrations:— j '_-j_"ltefei'ing to your telegram of 4th, have -■now' to advise that Cabinet has resolved that, peace celebrations shall bo continued on Monday, July 21, which shall be' the children's Jay. Regret that it is impossible to, arrange for special trains. Subsidy will be payable in con„nection with approved expenditure mrespect to celebrations on that :' - 'day.'m addition to Saturday,' July 11). Cop'ies of the declaration of peace will , forwarded, and suggest that it be read at celebrations."

:.""E«ferring to your letter of the Bth, "soldiers will bo carried free on trains on July 19 and 21. Children will bo carried free on Monday only. Children can only be conveyed to tup nearest town (from place of residence) in which celebrations 'will be held. No cpecial trains can be run, and only the accommodation available in the ordinary trains can bo ■used. It is therefore -recommended that in every possible case colobrations shall bj local. - Jin" connection with tho above, the Mayor said that the intentions of Cabinet were obvious in respect to the conveyance of children, and this was a .policy die.tated solely by tho dislocation of the railway service consequent upon the shortage of coal. Tho Ministerial dictum meant that in the case of Petone (where celebrations were to uo held) the school children would not bo conveyed to Wellington, and if there were no celebrations at the Lower Hutt, the children would attend the Petone celebrations, it the controlling authorities approved.

THE ILLUMINATIONS ) MAYOR SAYS THEY MA'Y YET BE ARRANGED. r In view of the large amount of money irhich has been incurred in correction - with peace illuminations.. and the general disappointment manifest at Cabinet s decision , that wherever the electrical cur- " - rent for such illuminations is raised bj efeam (and consequently by the, use ot • coal) none shall be permitted, a statement on the position generally was requested from the Mayor (Mr. J. P- Luke) vestcrday. He said that the commumca- '.- tion from the Government respecting tl-o embargo on electrical and gas ill'inuna- ■ tions was the outcome of the position as ' ■ placed before the Government by the Cloal .Committee, and, in their case, was dictated by a consideration of the amount of ccal allowed to the City i,ouuoil tor the carrying oil of its various public services and the needs of_tlie jieople. It • ' was a matter to be carauU.Y considered ' by the council. . If. it " I . ean ! : * "the council' sanctioning' illuminations, a "reduction would bo ; made in the amount ■of coal allowed (by the' Coal Committee) for dav by day services, it would be ~'l matter for the council to determine its ™ which could not very well be . otherwise than unfavourable to the llluLauchlan, manager of the £ w Sli S~ol •» j" the front.of the Town Hall, and h 0 » , sonalb', .was of ««W tlie 9 S should be identified with Peace ?SfSSrhiij^ several private firms bad preparedt mod... -f!fsisnkvs He was assured that the •est displays. , during the than the peak load night hou ba embarrassing, «s----that th® council yould give outside of the pea . , .<j j Q Tflll t to '■ " " B lv TilnM Hhe iiluminatioi's are . say. .this, .that 1 for the peop ie going to make 1 < Bhorta g 0 0 f who are !t | Bl ha cut out, as coal, then they home it is our duty t Tho mum in a . " iSX. of secondary importance after .all." ......

LOCAL ACTIVITIES . ' STEBET CUT OUT. "ir'tc IT P Barber presided a. p ace Celebrations Com'i3so, and it was prooposed .to .sell at 23. eaoo. l- -vp,,, Zealand's snare in the Gie.it U ar. Jfesrs. Barber. Louis, and Fanning me ?hf souvenir on the Friday before Peace Day Regarding the fireworks d.spiay, the chairman announced that the Har■bourt Board w.ould not permit the c. splay given-nearer .than half a me .from'the "shore. On the motion <•- Mi. E- J; Eighton, seconded by Air. J. JlHelliwell, : it' was decided to d h ®?> 'tte original intention of the ui.,p.ay "bfe'itig'"giveu from a hulk moored off . Oriental Bay."' Owing to the alteration in' the peace celebration dates and the possibility-of indifferent weather, it was decided to abandon the street decoration 6cheme. It was announced that instructions had been- issued to the various Boy Scout troops throughout the Lmpire to light bonfires on Saturday evening Lewis announced that the following livl expressed their intention uf takin°. .part in'tlie procession:—Red Cross Society, Veterans, Nurses. Returned Soldiers,' Women's National Reserve, L'ricwl•ly Societies, Private Trades, Post Office Employees Harbour Board, Navy League, Territorials, Boy Scouts, and Fire Brigade.