NO CENOTAPH
OBSERVING ANZAC DAY SPIRIT OF 1914 STILL EXISTS The lack of a permanent cenotaph and oft sufficient space in which to conduct Anzac Day observances before a large enough assemblage was deplored by Lieutenant-Colonel T. 11. Dawson, C.M.G., at last evening's meeting of the Auckland Returned Soldiers’ Association executive. Colonel Dawson considered that those factors were preventing the dissemination of the spirit and feeling it was desired to disseminate on Anzac Day among the younger people. "I have been in training camps lately,” he said, “and I have been in close contact with the youths and young men of this generation, and 1 know that they are clean at heart and are imbued with the right spirit—the same spirit that existed in 1914. They also_ have the right feelings of appreciation of what our men did during the war.”
He deplored that those who endeavoured to present Anzac Day to the younger generation in its true spirit of appreciative commemoration should be so hampered in their efforts, when that generation was so ready to receive those sentiments and benefit by them.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 601, 1 March 1929, Page 16
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183NO CENOTAPH Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 601, 1 March 1929, Page 16
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