AUCKLAND REGIMENT
KING'S COLOURS HANDED OVER AT THE CENOTAPH Auckland, Sunday. The ceremony of the trooping and th'e consecration of the King's colours of the Third Battalion of the New Zealand Regiment of the N.Z.E.F. was held to-day at the Auckland Cenotaph. The picturesque and impressive military and naval ceremony was watch'ed in the rain by several thousand spectators. The Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, who referre^ to the magnificent war record of the regiment, took the salute. The colours were handed to the officers of the Regiment by Sir " Stephen Allen, Colonel A. Plugge and Major Coates, who were the actual officers to bring the colours back to New Zealand after the war. After being conseerated by Archbishop Averill, th'e colours were handed over to the authorities of the War Memorial museum for safe keeping. A feature of the ceremony was the smart bearing of a detachment of French sailors from the French sloop in port.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 549, 5 June 1933, Page 5
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155AUCKLAND REGIMENT Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 549, 5 June 1933, Page 5
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