ANZAC DAY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1542, 25 April 1916, Page 2

ANZAC DAY.

To day is the first anniversary of the now historic landing of the New Zealand and Australian Army Corps on Gallipoli Peninsula, and is being fittingly celebrated throughout every town and settlement of this country and Australia. The day is not regarded as a holiday of an ordinary kind, but to afford an opportunity to the public for meditation and prayer. By the utterances of public men' and by tbe prayers of ministers of religion the minds and hearts of of the people will be turned to that day when “our boys”—heroes of the blood—added lustre to our past glorious achievements by that valiant landing on the grim shores of Gallipoli. We need not trace the event a s if i § fresh in our memories and will go down from us to our children's children. Hundreds fell on that day and the narrow strip of beach which they won was that evening strewn with our dead and wounded. May this first anniversary inspire many of our eligible men, who are hanging back, to offer their services to the Empire to reinforce those brave fellows at the front and so remove the stigma which has fallen upon them.