THE The Pukekohe and Waiuku Times. PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS. FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1916 ANZAC DAY.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 161, 31 March 1916, Page 2

THE The Pukekohe and Waiuku Times.

PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS.

FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1916 ANZAC DAY.

The Official Organ of . The Franklin County Council. The Pukekohe Borough Council. The Tuakau Town Board. The Karaka Road Board. The Pokeno Road Board. The Wairoa Road Board. The Papakura Towu Board. The Waikato Biver Board. The Mercer Tow n Board.

"We nothing extenuate, nor let dovrn aught in malice. 1 '

Although the local authorities in the Franklin Electorate, including the I'ukekohe Borouhg Council, are taking no steps to celebrate the forthcoming anniversary cf Anzac Day, many towns and districts elsewhere in the Dominion are making arrangements for the day to be fittingly observed. The movement was mitiat d in Queensland, where it is intended to keep the day as one of solemnity, placing first its religious observance in a manner to be decided by each denomination. Jn Brisbane itself all the troops will be paraded to their respective churches at an early hour in the mormag. A public memorial dervice lor civilians will tie hel l at a later hour in the morning, and it is hoped that similar services will be held in each town throughout the State. In the evening public meetings will be held. I'llj children arc to be assembled 0:1 the last day before the Eatt.r holiday, and addressed upon the l;abject. Plans for the observance ol ths day have been drawn up by a Commemoration Committer, which strongly that there be no attempt whatever to turn Ai.sac Day into one of ;jbilac;un or rejoicing in any form. The . ammitjUc also discountenances any i-.ujgcsuon f.o turn the cecasion into an o;iportun ( ty for rajsjpg fundi lor any purport Whatsoever. (Jiie ct the Queensland committee's proposals is that, simultaneously throughout the State, every person and all work shall come to a standstill at i) a.m. tar the period ot one minute in honuur of th2 fallen hero:s. if we are to have or.e distinctively national anniversary, it ought to be the dutc upon which New Zeiland Btruck a brave and pywcrfu' blow l'jr the Empire—the ciatc yp.on which our country began a new life ai a np.U.oi, conscious of the v lour of its soldier-.;ans and of 1 t.i membership of the Confederal tion of States lighting and bleeding l'jr tiKii' fellowship and their