DIED FOR HIS MATES.

Shannon News, 15 May 1925, Page 3

DIED FOR HIS MATES.

THAINEE'S TERRIBLE, END. UNDER MADDENED HORSES. BRISBANE, April 28. i The body of Rjoneit Higson, aged I'J, an artillery trainee at Enoggera, camp, was frightfully mutilated yesterday when he made a successful and gallant attempt toi swerve a team ox four horses attached to a limber ( away from a party of comrades gath-' ored around. j The. gun team bolted when parading across the artillery reserve. Higson and Leslie Todd were riding Uie l two near-side horses, but no one was on tlie limber. Todd was thrown off, sustaining concussion. Higson then made a valiant effort to, save, his comrades, and though he succeeded, the limber struck an electric light poie. Higson was 'hurled into tfie air, fallin gunder .the. wildly plunging horses.

The Christchurch Star quotes a| writer in the "Church News,'" who, resents any attempt to crowd the! Anzac Day memorial service into the water-tight compartment of a Sunday. The Star comments: "It is only fair to point out, that those, who advocate this course are as genuinely anxious for the observance of the day as anyone else, and pea-haps have a great deal more foresight in the matter. Christchurch is the only place in New Zealand where Anzac Day is observed in the solemn form that the legislature had in view when 'Sun-, dayising' it, and there is no* hope of inducing tlie rest of New Zealand to observe Anzac Day with the same solemnity. Already the people ore making a general holiday of it, end] in Ashburton this year % number of! farmers went about their jdoughtug. as usual. In Australia, too, Anzac Day is observed in some places with -a! half-holiday, and in other places not at all, while in those places where a> full holiday is observed, it is being, rapidly secularised. Therefore, the | religious character of the observance t can only be firmly established by holding Anzac Day on tire Sunday nearest, to April 65, because otherwise as the years go by, it will tend to become a holiday and less of a day of solemn celebration. . . • - But, in any case, the landing at Anzac was made on a Sunday, and could very well be observed permanently on that day."