ANZAC DAY
SERVICE IN MASTERTON PARK ON TUESDAY. ARRANGEMENTS FOR PARADE. Anzac Day will be observed in Masterton on Tuesday next, when a service will be held in the Park at 10.50 a.m. in memory of the 17,000 New, Zealanders who made the supreme sacri-> fice during the Great War of 1914-1918.
Ex-service men will assemble at the Soldiers’ Hostel, Essex Street, at 10.15 a.m., wearing medals and decorations. The Wairarapa College Cadets, the Territorial units, and the Legion of Frontiersmen will also assemble at the same hour and place, in readiness to move off for the Park at 10.40 a.m.
The parade will be headed by the Masterton Municipal Band, which will also supply the music for the service, which is to be presided over by the honorary chaplain of the R.S.A., the Rev E. J. Rich, who will also give the address. Mr H. J. Brass, chairman of the Wairarapa R.S.A., will deposit the Association’s wreath on 1 the Soldiers’ Memorial after which two minute’s silence will be observed. At the conclusion of the service, the returned men will be the guests at the Soldiers’ Hostel, of the ladies of the war time Liverpool Committee and their friends at morning tea.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 April 1939, Page 4
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203ANZAC DAY Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 April 1939, Page 4
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