SERVICES IN SCHOOLS

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28261, 26 April 1957, Page 12

SERVICES IN SCHOOLS

After hearing a fairy story a five-year-old girl at the international children’s village, at Pestalozzi, Switzerland, said: "You tell us there are fairies in the woods. That is not true. There are soldiers in the woods, with guns. I know, they shot my mother.”

This incident was recalled yesterday by Mr M. P. Whatman, j speaking at the Anzac Day ser- £ vice at the Christchurch Boys’ High School. i Founded 10 years ago to give i homes to a few of the orphans of i World War 11, the village now j accepts children from broken 5 homes in many countries. ' “I have spoken of Pestalozzi on this Anzac Day because it exem- i plifies, in miniature, that world . for which we all hope, for which the men and women of New Zealand laid down their lives in two world wars,” said Mr Whatman. "We hope that the youth of this country, or indeed of the world. , will not have to march again, and in the example of Pestalozzi we ' see a gleam of hope.” St. Andrew’s College A pipers’ lament was all that ' broke a five-minute silence of worship in St. Andrew’s College Chapel, where the school’s Anzac Day service was held. This part of the service followed the dedication of a table in the memorial shrine, the placing of a wreath and the reading of more than 60 names from the Roll of Honour. The head prefect, N. D. Thomson, read the lesson to a packed chapel, while pupils listened outside the building. The Rev. G. D. Falloon, in his address, urged New Zealand youth to retain interest in Anzac Day. Too mahy, he said, considered it a "nuisance.” Mr D. T. Ager, president of the Old Boys’ Association, placed a wreath at the shrine and both the school’s pipe band and buglers were present. Linwood Intermediate The assembly hall at Linwood . Intermediate School was filled to capacity when pupils, parents and i friends attended an Anzac Day , commemorative service on Wed- ’ nesday afternoon. The guest speaker was the Rev. J. C. A. ’ Williams. The Rev. L. J. Boulton ’ Smith led in prayers after a scripture reading by a school prefect, j Janet Russell. The school choir j of 90 voices sang the 23rd Psalm, . a boys’ choir of 50 voices sang an I "Anzac Day Hymn,” and Melvyn Woodley recited “For the Fallen.” , After the service a wreath was j laid at the foot of the flag pole by two prefects, Allan Lavender and Gay Storey. “Last Post” and “Reveille” were sounded by a party of three buglers from Linwood High School, after which a benediction was pronounced by Mr Williams.