TOCH H

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 December 1939, Page 9

TOCH H

CHAIN OF LIGHT. OBSERVANCE BEGINS TONIGHT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, December 9. The world-wide observance of what is known as the Toe H Chain of Light will begin in Christchurch on Monday evening. . Simultaneously with the lighting of lamps in Christchurch, lamps of other New Zealand branches will be lit, and later, in succession westward, other Toe H units in all countries will follow suit, lighting lamps by 9 p.m. in their own times. The symbolic chain will be completed in this way in 24 hours. From 9 p.m. on Monday to 9 p.m. on Tuesday the Wilfred Crichton Lamp held by the Christchurch branch will be kept burning, and a guard of members will in turn keep vigil over it. The lamp will be lit by Mrs Godfrey, a sister of Wilfred Crichton (an Avonside man who was killed at Paschendaele).

The Cathedral has been made available for the ceremony. At 8.30 p.m. on Monday, members of both Toe H and the Toe H League of Women Helpers will meet in the Lady Chapel, and a service will be held till 9 o'clock. At this service messages will be read from centres in Australia, India, South Africa, England, Scotland and Ireland. It is expected that further messages will arrive before Monday from Canada, the United States, the West Indies, and South America. Last year the chain was started from Toronto, and in the previous year from Calcutta. For 10 years in succession the chain has been formed on this date, which is the anniversary of the starting of Talbot House in Flanders in 1925. SERVICE IN WELLINGTON. WELLINGTON. This Day. The Rev Gordon McKenzie, Wellington regional padre, will conduct a short Toe H service in Wellington tonight, when a message from New Zealand Toe H to the world will be read. This has been prepared by the Dominion padre, the Rev O. W. Williams, chaplain of Christ’s College. Part of the. Wellington service will be the lighting of the lamp dedicated to the late Captain Dillon Bell.