PEACE CELEBRATIONS—A GOOD SUGGESTION.

Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 31 March 1919, Page 3

PEACE CELEBRATIONS—A GOOD SUGGESTION.

To the Editor.

Sir.—There are many proposals for the celebration of the coming peace which arc possible, but only one proposal which will be universal —to have a .bonfire. May 1 crave permission to put before your readers and before those men and women who fought and stopped both the Hun invasion and the epidemic of influenza a proposal that the bonfire should be as big as possible? Further, that every householder should be asked to put out every scrap of old material, such as disused bedding, beds, carpets, pictures, chairs, books, palters, magazines, shelves, cupboards, boxes, clothes, boots, motor tyros, hats, jackets, mantles, scarves, blazers, ties, ribbons, bloomers and animosities, etc.,' etc., on the pavement at such a time and such a block north, [south, east, and west, ns to allow the local authority to remove them under proper guard to the largest public ground available, there to bo deposited over a carefully made wooden framework allowing ample draught for a perfect incineration, the pinnacle surmounted by a representation of the war-maniac Wilhelm Hohenzollern and a sufficiency of his headquarters staff, who so wished for war. The whole to be lit at, say. !) p.m. bv prearrangemont with neighbouring towns and townships, the tires of which, composed of similar disease-harbouring j material, lighted simultaneously, will j announce to the youth of the Dominion, j and to the shipping out at sea. (he de- • termination of their- parents and ui' their splendid heritage so to treat all * foreign military or infectious Armada: i

—I am, (Me.. (Dll.) KJ)O A i-! WHIT AKK K . Member of i’.X. Hospital . Board and Hon. Mcdii.-al Advisor TVX. Borough Counnil. Palmerston North, I’id’n M a roll, lfij.s).