ANZAC DAY IN NEW YORK

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 234, 28 June 1921, Page 5

ANZAC DAY IN NEW YORK

NEW ZEALANDER’S EXPERIENCE.

At least one New Zealander had. an Anzac Day celebration in New York. He is Mr. W. R. Chisholm, of Wellington, who has been resident in America for three years and a half, having returned to this city two days ago. Mr. Chisholm was in the Main Body with the Wellington Mounted. Rifles, and was wounded in the eyo by a splinter of shell soon after the landing. His family reside in Wellington. “There were a few Anzaes m New York,” he told a Dominion reporter yesterday, “so we decided to have a geneial meeting on the sad old 25th —a day that none of us will ever forget. Wo arranged witli a Presbyterian parson in a little church to have a service, and we all rolled up in uniform. I left mine where I couldn’t find it, so I borrowed an 'Aussie/ which, fitted all right, the party cf us had our service and a reunion in the form of a dinner. The Americans are really fond of Australians and New. Zealanders, and many came to our little service, out of respect for the men who had fallen.” Incidentally, Mr. Chisholm spoke of the fall in prices that has swept over America. “It is hardly credible,” lie said "Ono finds sugar fallen from 39 cents a pound to 5J cents. Firms are closing up every day, and men are being discharged everywhere. It is hard to foresee the end." Mr. Chisholm likes the Americans. “But they will always boost an Anzac at the expense of an Englishman, whom they dislike,” he told the reporter.