Peace Day.
-♦ The Premier has made another 1 statement in the House of Representatives on the subject of the celebration of the termination of the war in South Africa. He saiJ he had announced a few days ago that the Government, after considering the question, had decided to make the Prince of Wales's Birthday, the gth November, Peace Day. However, as members would have seen by the newspapers, FieldMarshal Lord Roberts had now stated definitely that on certain conditions peace would be proclaimed. That being the case, the Government had decided to reconsider the matter. The Government had other information which had induced this reconsideration. One of the shipping companies had intimated that there would be berths for a large number of passengers by, he thought, the steamer Papanui, which would be leaving Capetown for New Zealand on the 4th December. The company wished to know whether the Government would be in a position to take advantage of this opportunity. He (Mr Seddon) had communicated with Lord Roberts on the subject. He informed him that so far as New Zealand was concerned, it was not desired that the troops from this colony should come back till they could be spared but there was this opportunity to have some of them conveyed to the colony, and the Government would like to Unow Lord Roberts' mind. The Com-:nander-in-Chief had replied that he hoped, if not earlier, then by the 4th December, to be in a position to spare the New Zealand men, or some of them. Another circumstance was that it bad transpired that to have the celebration on the Prince of Wales' Birthwould not suit organisations which had made other arrangements for that day. There had, moreover, been a protest from the schoolchildren. They wanted a Peace Day and nothing but a Peace Day, and to give them the Prince of Wales's Birthday was to give them something they had already. In view of these things, the Government was reconsidering the question, and another announcement as td the peace rflnbratinns would be made.
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Manawatu Herald, 11 October 1900, Page 2
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342Peace Day. Manawatu Herald, 11 October 1900, Page 2
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