MEMORIAL UNVEILING

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 797, 18 October 1929, Page 6

MEMORIAL UNVEILING

ARRANGEMENTS COMPLETE AT ONEHUNGA CEREMONY ON SUNDAY Arrangements for the ceremony of. unveiling the Arch of RemembraiiCe at the entrance to Jellicoe Park, hunga, on Sunday next are now'-com*', 1 plete. A procession of Sunday School child-, ren will march from the Theatre to the park at 3.15 p.m. headed by the Onehunga Citizens’ Band. There, following the singing of the National Anthem, the Rev. D. D. Scott will engage in prayer.

After singing the hymn “O God, Our Help in Ages Past, by the assemblage, and a Scriptural reading by the Rev. F. E. Leadley, the Mayor of Onehunga, Mr. E. Morton, will deliver an address. The unveiling ceremony will then be performed by the Hon. E. A. Ransom, Minister of Public Works, who will be followed by the member for the district, Mr. W. J. Jordan.

Kipling’s -‘Recessional” will then be sung by the company and after the sounding of “Last Post” by the Regimental Trumpeters, the function will be closed by the pronouncement of the benediction by the Rev. W. M. Smyth. A guard of honour will be formed by ■four companies of territorials, each 100 strong, supported by a battery of artillery with another hundred men. The Artillery Band and the Ponsonby Boys’ Band will be massed with the Onehunga Band in the musical portion of the programme. The Auckland Aero Club will cooperate in the function by providing airplanes which will circle over the park between 3 p.m. and 3.30 p.m., and

Messrs. Harrington’s, Ltd., have arranged to broadcast the service with six amplifiers.

A special invitation has been issued to all ex-soldiers and their relatives, and, given fine weather, the committee anticipates an attendance of about 5,000.