DAY OF REMEMBRANCE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 27, 23 April 1927, Page 12

DAY OF REMEMBRANCE

ANZAC DAY ARRANGEMENTS TOWN HALL SERVICE Constituted by Act of .Parliament as a day of remembrance, Anzac Day, as befitting the occasion, will be observed as a close holiday. Business premises, including hotels, will be closed, and there will be no sporting fixtures. Not a holiday, but a holy day in the true sense of the word, Anzac Day will be devoted entirely to services in memory of the men from New Zealand who, on all fronts, and also in New Zealand, gave of their best in the greatest of all wars. AT THE TOWN HALL In Auckland the principal service will be at the Town Hall at 11 a.m. Returned soldiers will parade at Queen’s Wharf at 9.30 a.m., and will then march up Queen Street to the cenotaph erected outside the Town Hall. There the salute will be giv *n by each unit as they march by, the men then proceeding to the hall, where they will occupy the ground floor. The

next of kin of deceased soldiers will be allotted a portion of the gallery, and the doors will be opened for ticketholders at 10.15. After they have been admitted, the hall will be thrown open to the public. Next of kin tickets may be had on application to the secretary of the Returned Soldiers’ Association in Customs Street. At the service, the Mayor, Mr. G. Baildon, will preside, and will read the lesson, the addresses being given by Archbishop Averill, Primate of New Zealand, and the Rev. D. C. Herron, M.A., M.C., a chaplain with the New Zealand Division in France. The Rev. E. E. Bamford will also assist in the service. At the close, the official wreaths, including those from the Government, the city, and the Returned Soldiers’ Association will be deposited on the cenotaph. Later they will be taken with the private floral tributes to the soldiers’ memorial at Waikumete Cemetery, where another service will be held at three o’clock. At both services the Hon. R. F. Bollard, Minister of Internal Affairs, will represent the Government. At the Town Hall arrangements have been made with the Radio Broacasting Company for a special wireless broadcasting of the proceedings, while ’Tricity House has agreed to relay the service my means of a loud speaker to the throng outside the hall. This will enable the public to take part in the service without crowding the building. SCHOOLS’ SERVICE A special service at the Town Hall for pupils of the secondary schools will be a special feature of the day’s proceedings. The service, which will commence at 2.30 p.m., will be similar to that of the morning. Mr. S. Austin Carr, president of the Returned Soldiers’ Association, will preside, and the address will be given by Canon Percival James. The Revs. W. L. Marsh, W. T. Blight, and J. Hiddleston will also assist. AT THE CEMETERIES As in previous years, the Victoria League Care of Soldiers’ Graves Committee will visit the cemetery at Wai* kumete to place a laurel wreath on the graves of the soldiers buried there. At O’Neill’s Point Cemetery a service will be conducted by Canon Macfarlane at 2.45 p.m. The Revs. C. B. W. Seton, of Otahuhu, and Atkinson, of Belmont, will give addresses, and the last post will be sounded by 10 bLigle.rs from Otahuhu. Wreaths will be placed on the graves at Takapuna by the Takapuna Girl Guides, while the Purewa Cemetery will be visited by the Tamaki Girl Guides, and the Waikaraka Cemetery by pupils of the Onehunga and Tc Papapa schools. OTHER SERVICES Commemorative services will also be held in the Foresters’ Hall, Takapuna, at three o’clock, preceded by a parade at the corner of Lake Road and Tennyson Avenue, and at the Manurewa picture theatre. The latter service will be addresesd by the Rev. W. A. Elliott, of Papalcura.