ANZAC DAY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 April 1938, Page 6

ANZAC DAY

SERVICE IN MASTERTON PARK ON MONDAY Anzac Day will be observed on Monday, when a service will be held at Masterton Park at 11 a.m. in memory of the 17,000 New Zealanders who made the supreme sacrifice during the Great War. Returned soldiers will assemble at the hostel at 10.30 a.m. and medals and decorations are to be worn. The Wairarapa College Cadets and Pipe Band will parade under Major J. W. Bird and a section of the Wellington East Coast Mounted Rifles Platoon of the Hawke’s Bay Company of the Composite Battalion and two sections of the Trench Mortar Battalion will parade under Lieut. I. A. Hart, while Captain A. W. Don will be in charge of the local squadron of the Legion of Frontiersmen. The parade will march off at 10.45 a.m., headed by the Masterton Municipal Band, for the Park. At the conclusion of the service the men will be the guests at morning tea at the hostel of members of the war-time Liverpool Committee and their friends. The Rev E. J. Rich will be the chairman at the service, and will give the address. Mr J. H. Irving, chairman of the R.S.A. will place the R.S.A. wreath on the Soldiers’ Memorial, after which two minutes’ silence will be observed. The first and last verses of the Recessional will be played and the gathering will close 'with prayers.