REMEMBRANCE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 818, 12 November 1929, Page 11

REMEMBRANCE

Rotarians and Albert Hall Service Auckland Rotarians took part in an Albert Hall Armistice Day ceremony yesterday. They sang hymns with London crowds. THK ordinary luncheon procedure of tlie club was suspended because of falling, for the first lime in 11 years, on Armistice Day. With slides symbolic of sacrifice, religion and patriotism. a sound-synchronised service was conducted in the Lewis Eady Hall. Speeches by leaders of the Empire in warfare and religion were heard. Albert Hall crowds were beard, too. A measure of the fervour of patriotism reached out to Auckland. Massed bands played; Scottish marching airs roused enthusiasm. Prior 10 the actual service, Mr. Stanley Reid, president of the Rotary Club, referred to the efforts of the League of Nations to secure world peace. Much of the work of the League, he said, passed unrealised by the world. He read au announce* meut made by the League. “The Great War was a war to end war,” said the announcement “Was not that a j noble ideal? Do we not owe more to S our fallen brothers than wooden crosses and stone cenotaphs?** In the service was a memory c»! (1914-18. Soldiers were heard singing j the songs of w artime. Besides the j singing of hymns and the playing ol j Chopin's “Funeral March.” the “Last Post” anil the “Menin Gate" reveille 'here were addresses by Iparl Jellicoe ' and the Bishop of London. The most striking slide was the dominating sombreness of a cross im i>oseil on a glimpse of dark cleudi fringed ith sunlight.