To-day's Celebrations

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13940, 19 July 1919, Page 2

To-day's Celebrations

PEACE DAY IN THAMES : ■ ihc Procession * Thii celebmitiicms in, honour of I peace started this ttKxrnriniag. with the ringing! of bells' . .and bio.iying. ox I whistles and. horns.. At 10.30 a.m. itihe, monster pruaessaou fltawted fro mi ; Shortlland'. Major Browne was hi (charge of the mi'lkiajy jpotrtiaa, aissiated by hua staff officpro, Sergiti.- ---! Major W. W. C. Crassgrove, 1 Sengit. Major N. C- Busby, awl Maijor Lucas, V.D., the chief nuar'shiatL. Messrs J. MoOormiiok, A. J Baternani, and H. T. G. McElroy added, j 'as aesateltanfc miarsbal. The pixxaewsionv was^ heeded by the Band of the 6th ■ ELauraiki Regiment under Lieutenajniti , Clarke. Theni came a oa? containing; the following wounded soldiers 1: Privates Sherlock, Oarke, Ngakai ami Remisihaw. Maijorß Mitchell and Beck and liieiuit. V. Holden proceeded [ abaoiutti 100 .returned isoldiiers in uniform), oavaral wearing decoraitdoms. 1 Surgieoitt Major ;La|>raik, Ca^tiaikte WMsih© and Derrick,' awooniponlied; by Sister Hawtoinig and* Nurse McGruer. Clasp*. H. J. PeKurse was in, ahiairgiei of ! a' 1 large muster" of tarritortialsi, whole "High School' Oadette, nmdeir' Lliieiuit-. , Hodit', and the 90lth Companiy Sahool, Cadetis under Seirg*. -Major Coi«girore turrned out mi sttttrng 1 force Mr Walter^; and has- irnaitive troupe iti Nartiye atifcire made a good showiing. j , Tlherlß was a fuill niusteir' of the Fire ] Brigade* with their motor and,' amtbii-' i lanioe, unden* Suipt. H. "Stonei, and ' i Deipultiy Supthsi. GraiTett and Pratt. | Then followed! rthe Haiuraki Band' un-' der Bandamaßtiear Arthur William's:, Mr T. W. Rhodes, MP., am>ropainied biy, His Woaisihip the Mayor (Mr . 8.. N. Miller), and GSowncdloir' .S:; Muiiir imirdhieidl nertl. Then came a hrg& twimiber of members of the loctal' goTternSjiig 1 bodies in Mr Hall's deootrait<- \ ed oar. There was a lairjgie paiDade of 1 tih© memibers of lihe Thaanieia Old ! Boys' AssodiialtSbni under Piresidemltl J. E. Hardnnainl. Then! followed lodges M and Mendly sotoietdesi, trade unions, T- rpiartiriostiia imrriaites of tho v Distirfic*; Homes, aj lon^r flttiringl of 1 dewoiraibeid imofoir' oanng, and 1 Tehnoles. : Thie paWcessiiottii qjoiseed aJlcwli* Polletn 1 St. tia G-mlhiaTnteitowni, -and rettiwnnied' toi Ma.ry Streejti cornteii*, i AT MARY ST. CORNER. : T!h|e prooesaion retuittiod to Miaiy St.' corner, where a pkitforni had been erected in. frame of the Methodis(b Chuirch, upon which, were .marshalled the', united chairs, 'school children., pttnmnenlti oitazena and giuestb. } ' In tihje four' 1 <Sroßßi-roads, several thoui- ■ f eemd penaorie had assembled, the t bands, troops', and' returned inßii in s the cenitire of Pollen. St., echooilcibil'drem in Mary St. The soen© wa« bright with waving flagsl, a kurgie numiber of itihe ohiildren being •provided witih the N.Z. flagg amd embloms of tho AlliesThe Mayor (Mr E. N f Miller) Hna Majesfty's Pl-ooiL'aimia.tlioin,, as follows: , t "Whereas al definite Treaty of Peace between! ue and the associated i 1 Goyer'amentts and; the- German GovernimeTiit wae comoluded at VerstaJiies on the twenitty-eighth day of June last: In, aonformity thereuin'to we have thought fit hereby to Gonomiairj.d \ihaM the same bet published in diuw i course throughouti all ouir Domiriions; and we do deolaife *o all! our losing suibjeote our will and pleasuiw tha* upon the eoreihiaiigiei of (tihie raitin- , ciataon. thereof . tihe ! said Treaty of Peac« be obseirved, mvdolably as we'll ' 'by sea a« by land and mi all! places wha,t9oefver; stirictily^ charging and. <»tmimiandiinjg! all ouir loving subjects' to taike ntottao© tlhereoif and to ootnfonn , tihieimtsieltves ftihiereunita accordingly.

Grvtetn <a# aw Court at Bucking j hlaani Palace, 'MJhds first day o: i Juityi iro the year of our Lord on* ■i | ttfooiusainid nine hundred and 'nine' ! v itieenl, and m (.-the-tenitih. year ■oi ■ ... owrl ragmi-" ■-. , ..• • ■ • "■ GOD SAVE THE KING! The hymn "0 God Our Hedp In Ages Paist" was siunjgi by Ike ltair*g*B giattiheiringj, Mr Wobb oonduot.ing amid the bands jpirtmdi'Dgi the music. Mr B. Waitßon/'s fin© -roribe ra« h.eaa Hd to advamtage ia "Land of Hope amd Glory," /the ciboira, Amid than tJ»e whiole igßitJDariing! talkiing: 'tqp the ver traSm., .: ; ' : ' ' :•■■:.'-.■ .-■." : THS SILENT TRIBuirE, Punctually at i»oon erery ha,t ynm romcxvned and for five miihutieei a bareheaded tribulte wa& pasid to the braivw and hoaioured dead. Thiena tihe solennia strains of the "Dead Maatih in Saul that has played sk> nuainiy hei'oes do theii* last, long rest, broke the BBlianto, tihree afounda AVeai© fired', and t9io "Last Poet" sounded. Around the British Empire* at. the same hour, the same tribute was paid. The Hymn of Peace, sung 1 -heartily by (the cihoir 'ai>d sdhootL-Ghildttar:, folloiwed. Hi s W«rshi.p ithe Mayor 1 (Mr E. N- Millar), SiM-gean-Majoa* La,Ipraak (Presddenib Returned Soldiiei*? Aasocdaition), Mr Henry Lowe, the Gouoty Chaiirman (Mr J. McOoi*micfc), Mr T.* W. Rhodes, M.P., and Hoheipa, Martlatiulal, r«prtis€<ni'tiiinig the Native nacie, each spoke biietly on different) afispectta of Itihe great ooaasioni. (The*)© epeeeh eg will appear irai next issue). . At the oonclusion of th© iapeeches tihe stage was cleared amd «i teaim of hiaifca dancers from. HtLkutiaiia, gabbed i^ oldonl tfook the pMtcccw, and gavw gcxmo won-

' derfully stirring dances which j workeci Llhe gathering up to a high ;p;i«tcli. The sdn-gihig; of ; , the Naiioual ■ Anthem fotlltrwed by long aaid heaity ■ allecii^ tor tlie K-iig 1:,. the Army azvl ■ N.ivy, onur ' returned nVeni, fit>tinfijlv ! conoiurled a gadioi'iii^ that wilL ; iucuid'able'for lvmxy a day. '