Anzac Day Too Gloomy.
New Zealand’s methods of observing Anzac Day may be modified through the influence of the returned soldiers who made the successful trip to Australia for participation in the celebrations in Sydney. They found Anzac Day divided into halves, one for solemn commemoration of the sacrifices, and then a joyful recognition of the results. Many of them hold that New Zealand’s Anzac Day is wrongly observed as a day of unredeemed solemnity. “While the veterans of the Great War desire that there should be reverent observances on Anzac Day,” said one of them who made the Australian trip, “we are not, after our experience, inclined to favour continuing our own Anzac Day as a strict sort of Sabbath, implying no gaiety at any part of the day of commemoration.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 May 1938, Page 6
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132Anzac Day Too Gloomy. Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 May 1938, Page 6
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