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MEMORIAL SERVICE LARGE AND REPRESENTATIVE ATTENDANCE. (‘-Times-Age” Special.) There was a laffee attendance at the Anzac Day Memorial Service held yesterday. Prior to the service a procession of returned men, units of the Home Guard, E.P.S.: Girl Guides and Boy Scouts, marched to the Memorial Rest Room and later to the Hall, headed by the band. The Mayor, Mr W. Olsen, presided. Also on the stage’were Mrs Olsen, the Revs. I. K. Hopper (Methodist) and D. McNeur, Messrs A. H. Herbert (president of the local R.S.A.) and G. G. Hancox, Principal of the Wairarapa College. Mr Hancox was the speaker for the occasion and in an inspiring address described how the men of Australia and New Zealand had won for themselves undying glory on the battlefields of the Great War of 26 years ago. Today the new Anzacs were upholding the fine traditions of the older Anzacs. The keynote of Mr Hancox's address was that all should have the greatest confidence in God. their soldiers and their selves.
At the conclusion of the service the parade reformed and marched to the Rest Room where wreaths were laid on the Memorial Tablet on behalf of the returned soldiers. Boy Scouts and Cubs, and Girl Guides. The “Last Post” was sounded by Mr D. Thompson.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 April 1941, Page 7
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214EKETAHUNA Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 April 1941, Page 7
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