ANZAC DAY

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 173, 18 April 1921, Page 4

ANZAC DAY

ARRANGEMENTS FOR SCHOOLCHILDREN

THE CENOTAPH CEREMONY The following is a copy of a circular letter which has been issued to headmasters of the Wellington schools and committees in connection with the school children’s ceremony at the cenotaph on Monday, April 25 (Anzac Day):— “I. am directed by the. executive of the Wellington Education Board to invite the heartiest co-opegation of committee, staff, and pupils of every school in order to secure for the anniversary of Anzao Day a fitting schools’ observance, at once simple, earnest, and reverent. “Different circumstances will doubtless dictate variety of observance, but everywhere tho significance of the day will form a subject of some instruction on the preceding Friday. It is suggested that on the day itself the school should join in with the public memorial observance of the .place, and in small communities, where there is no other, that the scholars should be assembled at, say, 11 o’clock. Everywhere iflio whole staff should be present. “In ’Wellington, the children’s part in the day’s proceedings will take tho form of a gathering of Standards IV, V, and VI, of all the city public schools; and all private schools and colleges are cordially invited to take part. The executive arrangements have been entrusted to Mr. Foster, of Clyde Quay, chairman of the Headmasters’ Association, who has 'been appointed chief - marshal. The chief marshal will receive the assistance of the whole staff of every school, and- the School Committees’ Association has offered every - assistance in its power. Th« celebration will be before the cenotaph of the Returned Soldiers* Association, Lnmbton Quay. There wreaths borne by representative scholars from each school: will ho laid at the foot of the cenotaph: and at 11 o’clock sharp a brief, simple, service will be held. Tramway traffic will meantime be suspended. “The arrangements for the service and for the receipt and transfer of the floral offerings to the graves at Karori are ip the hands of the W.N.R. Girls Club, the members of which have earned the -latitude of the community by their fine devotion to the care of the soldiers graves. AVreaths from country friends will be carried free by rail, if addressed ‘Flowers for Soldiers’ Graves, c/o the Secretary, W.N.R. Girls’ Club, 157 Featherston Street, Wellington.’ . “Detachments of boys will receive them at each station on Monday at 10 a.m. “At the request of the chairman of the 'board, the Mayor has consented to provide cars, both inward and for the exclusive use ot scholars and adults in charge. A uniform return tore ;‘f tl charged for any distance, and as the care will be crowded, collection beforehand, by thetenehere to the suburbs immediately af Ali arrangements' have ]«. en Jr the memorial service which is to be h d tn the Town Hall on Anzac Day, next Monday, a°O p.m. The Rev.. T. Irtelden Tavlor will conduct the service, and the foltowing will also take Part: Major 1. W Burton (Salvation Army), Read (Methodist), Rev. J. MHvenzie (Presbyterian), and Rev. H. AanS eren (Jewish!. Afr. Bernard Page, the city organist, will preside at the organ, and the Salvation Army Silver Band _ will nlav Chopin’s Funeral Alarch and Dead March in“ Saul.” The soloist at this . servicewill be the same as last year. Miss Eileen Driscoll, who will sing Handels “O Set in the Lord.” Next-of-kin and relatives of deceased soldiers may obtain tickets of admission from Air. R. J. 1Aldrich, secretary, Wellington R-S-A-, at the association’s office in Brandon Street. Only ticket holders will be admitted up to 245 p.m., after which time no seats will be reserved, but available space will be free to the general P™ 110 ’ B On. the Sunday preceding Day a combined veterans’ service will be held in St. Alark’s Church at 3 p.m. Maori Jar veterans, South African war veterans and returned soldiers will take palt, the latter assembling at their club /Waters at 2.15 o’clock, and marching to the church. The order of parade will bo band. Afaori war veterans, South African -war veterans, and returned soldiers.