LEVIN SCHOOL'S OBSERVANCE
A simple yet nevertheless impressive ceremony marked the .commehioration of Ahzac Day at the Levin Scnooi yesterday. More than 600 children gathered in the school grounds to hear a represemative of the Levin R.S.A., Dr. S. J. Thompson, speak on the ideais of those who fell in the two World Wars and thp meaning of the word Anzac. Fpllowing a/ welcome by the headmaster, Mr. H. F. McClune, Dr. Thompson told the children how in a far corner of south-easu Europe, the Austrauan and New Zealand Army Corps had landed on the peninsula of Gallipoli. Since that uime, the world had been through another war and Anzac Day was to commemorate those who had fallen and to keep their ideais ever fresh in the minds of all. One of these ideais was freedom. Freedom did not mean being able to do what one wanted to, but doing what the majority of one's fellowmen wanted. It all came down in the end to service — service to one's fellowman. In conclusion, Dr. Thompson expressed the hope that as many as possible would attend, the two services in Levin on Monday, Anzac Day.
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Chronicle (Levin), 23 April 1949, Page 4
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