AUCKLAND REMEMBERS GREAT WAR SACRIFICE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 335, 21 April 1928, Page 5

AUCKLAND REMEMBERS GREAT WAR SACRIFICE

ANZAC DAY ARRANGEMENTS ! PROCESSION AND SERVICES The day set aside as a memorial to Anzac will be cele- j brated in Auckland with a parade ] of returned men and church ser- j vices. Lieutenant-Colonel W. C. Slnel, j D. 5.0., will be in charge o£ the procession, which will assemble at 9.45 a.m. inside the gates of the Queen’s Wharf on Wednesday. The men will parade in uniform or in mufti with decorations. The band of the Auckland Artillery will head the first section, consisting of naval units, and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Mercantile Marine, Air Force, South African and Mons veterans, and Imperial units. In the second section will he the band of the First Battalion, Auckland Regiment, mounteds and eyelists, field artillery, Australian, Canadian and South African units. Following the band of the No. 1 District Senior Cadets will be the New Zealand Field Engineers, Signallers and Tunnellers and Thh'd Auckland Infantry. The fourth section will consist of the Salvation Army Band, the 6th Hauraki, 15th North Auckland and the 16th Waikato Infantry. The Port of Auckland Band will head infantry units and the New Zealand Rifle Brigade, and in the sixth section will be the Waterside Workers’ Band, the Pioneer Battalion. Machine-gun Corps, Army Service Corps, Medical Corps, ordinance, pay, postal and other units and the Technical College Trumpet Band. THE SERVICES The main service commemorative of New Zealanders who fell in the Great War, will be held in the Town Hall at 11 a.m. The Mayor will preside, and the service will be conducted by the Rev. Evan R. Harries, the Rev. A. Macdonald, 0.8. E., former chaplain to the forces, and the Rev. G. T. Robson, M.C., R.N. Citizens may deposit floral tributes at the base of the cenotaph in front of the Town Hall, and wreaths will afterwards be taken to the soldiers’ memorial at Waikumete, where a service will be held by the Rev. Canon Percival James at 3 p.m. For secondary school scholars a service will be held in the Town Hall at 3 p.m., and the speakers will be the Rev. G. C. Cruickshank, the Rev. W. Lawson Marsh, the Rev. J. Hiddleston and the Rev. W. W. Averill. The King’s College will hold a service in the chapel in the evening. CHURCHES UNITE

A combined service arranged by the clergy of Ponsonby and Herne Bay will be held in All Saints’ Church on the evening of Anzac Day, the Church of England, Presbyterian. Methodist and Bautist Churches uniting. The speaker will be the Rev. A. Mitchell, of St. John’s Methodist Church. Two other ministers who will take part in the service are the Rev. W. W. Averill, vicar of All Saints’, and the Rev. F. B. Barton, of St. Stephen’s Presbyterian Church. Devonport will hold a service in the Victoria Theatre at 7.30 p.m. Seats will be reserved for returned soldiers, and societies wishing to attend. A combined service will be held at Titirangi soldiers’ memorial at 3 p.m. by the Revs. H. R. Jecks and W. P. Rankin. The Governor-General, Sir Charles Fergusson, and Lady Alice Fergusson will attend an Anzac memorial service to be held in Knox Presbyterian Church, Parnell, on Sunday at 11 a.m. The Rev M. Aspland will take for the subject of his sermon the question, “Have we done with war.” The service is under the auspices of the R.S.A.