LARGE ATTENDANCE
AT ANZAC DAY SERVICE IN PARK HOME DEFENCE UNITS PARADE WITH RETURNED SOLDIERS. In brilliantly fine weather, the Anzac Day service held at the Soldiers' Memorial in Masterton Park yesterday, attracted the largest attendance of the public seen for years. The parade of returned soldiers, Home Guard and E.P.S. units, Territorials, Wairarapa College cadets. Boy Scouts, Wolf Cubs, Legion of Frontiersmen, and V.A.D.’s, together with the Municipal Band and Wairarapa College Pipe Band, was one of the largest ever seen in Masterton, At the service, over which the Ven. Archdeacon E. J. Rich presided, Mr H. J. Brass, vice-president of the Wairarapa R.S.A. laid the Association’s wreath and Mr G. T. O’Hara Smith, Town Clerk, placed the Masterton Borough wreath on the memorial. The speaker for the occasion was Archdeacon Rich, a report of whose address appears elsewhere in this issue. After the parade, members of the Lady Liverpool Committee entertained at .morning tea ex-Service men who had travelled a distance to attend the parade.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 April 1941, Page 4
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167LARGE ATTENDANCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 April 1941, Page 4
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