ANZAC DAY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2119, 24 April 1920, Page 2

ANZAC DAY.

In accordance with the wishes of the New Zealand Government, memorial ’services will he held in the Town Hall to-morrow, Anzac Day, to commemorate the landiny of Ihe New Zealand troops at Gallipoli, end to perpetuate the memory of all New Zealand troops who fell (hiring (ho great war. Hervices will commence at 3 o’cdock. The singing will he led by the •children, under the leadership of Mr R. T. Betty, and accompanied by the Borough and Salvation Army Bands. The address will he delivered hy the .Rev, Thus, llalliday. An ex-lieutenant of the Imperial Army, now in Fox I on, writes as follows :—■ “So you have decided to go hack to New Zealand again ’ Well, goodbye, dear old sport, and well played. Mind you tell our kinfolk out there just how proud wo are of the way their hoys food the line. The Old Country will never forget, nor cease to he grateful, and every Anzac Day we shall he will) them, especially in reverently commemorating those •gone west’ belonging to that line lot

of lighters, and salute the good fellows spared to return home again," Such wa> the gist of remarks to the writer at a farewell friendly in London. with 60 brother officers, previous to embarking upon that good old seaboat, the ‘Cormthic/ and as tomorrow is one of New Zealand’s greatest of days, perhaps a few lines from my pen may, if only in a small degree, he of cheer to .those dear brave people who so keenly feel their loss of those who paid willingly, and in full, for the'great cause of Liberty. The fact that you already know, reader, how great a name the

Anzae made in the Great -War well bears repetition, and to remember also that the Soul of Great: Britain turns lovingly In your shores upon this great Commemoration Day will surely help to comfort the sad and enable such to look up bravely and feel, (lie sacrilicc was indeed well worth while in the cause of Empire, and in the making of so great and glorious a name for Xew Zealand for evermore.-’’