TARANAKI URS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2777, 22 May 1916, Page 3

TARANAKI URS

' PKESENTATJ/Qjjj TO CHURCH, The'colours of Taranaki militia 11 -J Sf i S deposited. in St. Mary'si Church,. j%Jtv Plymouth, on Sunday. Veterans, rol Jumed soldiers, cadets, and. toy scouts took; part in tho coremony. Iho colours wero lfcfjrne by Colonel M<isenger and Captain ,• Brown, and tlio bodyguard consisted of :non-conimissioned officers from the Hirjl School Cadets. The vicar, the Rev. J [ H. Colville, received iris iS Urs >. 1 , tte coursß of his adfm a l, % said that on Juno 25, j .militia - and tho volunteers, under Major- Herbert, mustered oil thoir parade ground : J.t Poverty Plat. With them .was the 5' fell Hegiment. The Ven. xhdeacon Goi le'tt then solemnly consecrated' the color Irs, "which were presented to. the militiai and. volunteers.by Mrs. War-re, wife of the officer, commanding the Taranaki .Virovince. In- making the presentation, s fce 6aid: "I would remind you that the colours of a legiment are pledges of our faith and of our allegiance to Queen and Country; 'to be honoured and preserved as a sacred duty, to be defended to this last at the cost of life itself." "Now," said the vicar, "these colours, on w taich are inscribed tho name of Waireka. and in the case of the volunteers, South:' Africa—symbols of duty nobly • done, of saorifioe gladly made, for which in t&.o past men have bled and died—are tc| ,be presented in the house of God. Here r they will rest, that all who ill years tb come shall worship under these walls' may see them and understand that as Go jl' has upheld our nation in 'the past, so Fig will be. with us t<vday and for over, -as long as we do not forget Him." >