ANZAC DAY.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1922, Page 2

ANZAC DAY.

Tuesday, the 25th April (Anzac Day) will be observed strictly as a Sunday in the Post and Telegraph Department. No mails will be despatched that day. There will be no delivery of correspondence over the counter the previous evening (Monday). The town posting boxes >vill be cleared at 11 p.m. as usual on Tuesday. Sunday hours are to be qbserved in the private box lobby. The Telegraph Office will be closed all day. Tho Telephone Office open fron] 9 to' 10 [V,»!, (ipd 5 tp fl

Mass will he celebrated at One Mile Hall, Arahura, on Sunday week, April 30th, at 8 a.m.

To-night! To-night! A Grand Dance takes place in the Supreme Hall by the Kiwi Football Club. Supper provided. (food music. Good floor. Don’t miss this first-class night’s enjoyment. Admission.—Gents 2s; Ladies Is.— Advt;

The Grey races arranged for to-day, were postponed. There were between 200 and 300 on the train at Hokitika this morning when the nows came through and the largo majority at once detrained.

Returned Soldiers, Territorials, Veterans and Cadets are notified to attend the parade on Anzac Day. Fall in at 10 a.m. at the Drill Shed, under Lieut. F. Mclntosh M.C. A full day parade will be allowed Territorials and Cadets attending

A cold in Die head frequently leads to acute irritation of the membrane of the throat and bronchial tubes, resulting in a distressing cough. This is what Mrs Vere Plantagenet experienced, hut a friend advised her to buy a bottle of “Kofgo.” She took two doses and the inflammation completely disappeared.

At the conclusion of the unveiling and commemoration ceremony on Cass Square on Tuesday at mid-day, Mr Seddon is to leave at once for Greymouth, where in the aftei'lioon he will unveil the memorial gates at the State School. The gates are a. very handsome war memorial to those ex-scholars of the Grevmouth School who served in the war.

Parliament lias provided by Statute that April 25th in each year shall be observed throughout New Zealand in all respects as if Anzac Day were a Sunday. The Police Offences Act, 1908, provides that evfery person is liable to a fine who, on Sunday, in or in view of any public place, trades, works at his trade or calling, deals, transacts business or exposes goods for sale, ot keeps open any house, store, shop, bar or other place for the purpose of trading, dealing, transacting business, or exposing goods for sale therein. Certain necessary public and private services at present allowed to remain open or to he worked are not affected.

Preparations for Anzac Day commemoration are now well advanced. The military and bands A ill parade as also the Fire Brigade, schools f and others. The Returned Soldiers are arranging for a representative parade and front the ranks of the returned men will be drawn the firing party. AH ranks parade at the Drill Shed at 10 o’clock on Tuesday morning, and march to the respective churches where divine services will he held. An hour later the procession reforms in Stafford Street, and proceeds to Cass Square where the Roll of Honour Pedestal will he unveiled by Captain Seddon M.P.