ARMISTICE DAY.

Shannon News, 9 November 1923, Page 2

ARMISTICE DAY.

SUNDAY'S OBSERVANCES

■PJHfc- Worship the Mayor (Mr W. Murdoch) has received the following letter from the Acting Prime Minister, Sir Trances Bell: "The whole Empire has. united since the year 1918 in commemorating ArmistiQei Day by a solemn si-\ lence of two minutes, beginning at the hour of eleven a.m. in each country, dominion, and dependency. His Majesty has expressed the Wish, that, in this present year when Armistice Day falls on Sunday, a service of .should be held in y the and the Government of New Zealand trusts that the several denominations throughout the Dominion will agree to partly devote, their morning services on Sunday the Hth November to that object. • "If -those services commenced, as is usual, it •11 ' a.m. it would he difficult io observe equally the precedent of silent commemoration at the same hour. For that reason the special service at Westminster Abbey / .at\ i 'which the King will be present, has been by His Majesty's desire, appointed to commence at 10.45 a.m. During that service at the hour of 11 a.m., the solemn silence will be observed. "The New Zealand Government trusts that the Dominion Churches will agree to arrange that on Sunday the 11th November, the morning, services shall commence, not later than 10.45, and that In. the course of * those services the several congregations may be invited to rise at 11 a.m. and silence be observed for two minutes. > . ' . •'"in ■' cities, or boroughs in which the trams are running on a Sunday it is desired that the trains should ston for two minutes at 11 a.m.. . "Trie GovernmlenU tlrusts, that all those who are unable to attend a ( church service on that date will, in accordance 1 with the" precedent fol r • lowed since 1918 observe solemn silence for two minutes at 11 a.m. on that date." . '" '