ANZAC DAY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 85, 27 April 1937, Page 6

ANZAC DAY

Our Own Correspondent.)

Wairoa Observance

(From

WAIROA, Last Night. After a night of wind and rain Anzac Day broke fine and the sun was shining brilliantly at 2. p.m. when 'the procession started from North Clyde and proceeded aeross the town bridge

ro coronation aquare, headed by the Municipal Band under tlie baton of Mr. K. L. G. Smith, followed by a fair number of veterans of the Maori and South African Wars and the returned eX-servicemen, and when all were drawn up in the square fronting tho oorough chambers the crowd evidenced a fair representation of town and country people, The Mayor deposited at the f'oot of the draped table a handsome wreath from the Council and the burgesses, *nd other very handsome wreaths were deposited from the R.S.A., Registered Nurses ' Association, District Hi^h 3chool and the hospital staff. The meijj wearing their many medals and decorations, were called to attention as the Band played a march, after whieh the Mayor addressed the assemblage, dwelling on the significance of the commem ora tion services, touching on the horrors of war, but expressiri" nis belief that if the call to service again came the men of New Zealand would do their duty and it was up' to che people to do theirs by the men who had come back broken in health. Mr. ,T. J. Millar spoke of Anzac and the glonous deeds that made the names of the men live for ever, but dwelt more especially on the need for doin^ what they could to lielp tho men who had come back broken in health. The Rev. C. E. Hyde dwelt chiefly otr the horrors of war, though he had boen loo young to oxperience same, and though they would not cure about stressing tliem before the young people tbey would be sure to fiud out for thomselves It was good to eontcuiplate what. the men died for, and though perhaps war could not be stopped by merely not iighting it might be stopped by the realisation of the duty of man to man and nation to nation, and above all, they should remember tlie duty they owed to the men who had come back. "The Last Post" was sounded by the Band's cornetists, and the singing of "God Savo the King, " led by tho band, concludod the cereniony, which was interspersed by the singing of "Lead Kindly Light," and Kipling's "Recessional. " The young people then made a piigrimage to the cemetery to deposit at tne Cross of Remembrance and on the soldiers' gravcs ,the many wreaths offertd.