Anzac Day Celebrations

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 40, 19 April 1929, Page 9

Anzac Day Celebrations

Broadcasts of Impressive Services ON Thursday, April 25, all broadcasts will be in connection with Anzac. Day celebrations and in keeping with the nature of the anniversary. IYA ‘At 1YA the morning, from 10.45, will be devoted to a description of the march by veterans of the war to the Cenotaph, and of the broadcast of the service there, . At 8 o’clock the Secondary Schools are taking part in a service in the Town Hall and this service will be relayed. ; . At 8 o’clock there will be a sacred concert in the studio; to h. Youd, Miss Martha Williamson, Mr. Lambert Harvey and Mr. Geoffrey Colleige will contribute. A very fine programme has been arranged. 2YA T 11 am. 2YA will relay the ceremony of the laying of the foundation stone of the Wellington War Memorial. The foundation stone will he laid by His Excellency the Governor-General, Sir Charles Fergusson, Bart., and this occasion will afford listeners and Diggers an opportunity of hearing the voice of His Excellency "over the air" for the first time from 2YA. In the afternoon, at 3 o’clock, there will be relayed from the Town Hall the annual memorial service of the Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Association, and at 8 o’clock a further relay from the same hall will be carried out to enable listeners to hear a concert arranged by Mr. H. Temple White, on behalf of the Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Association. 3YA N' impressive Toc H_ service will be conducted at St. John’s Anglican . Church, Woalston, on the morning of Anzac Day, and this will be broadcast by 3YA. In the afternoon, the citizens’ public memorial service in King Bdward ‘ Barracks, where there will be seating accommodation for 6,000 people, will be broadcast. An address will be given by Professor James Shelley, of Canterbury College, himself an ex-soldier. In the evening the Returned Soldiers’ Association will hold a special service in the Municipal Concert Hall. This service also will be relayed. 4YA 4YA, Dunedin, will not observe the usual silent day, but will carry out two relays. At 2.30 the Returned Soldiers’ Association will conduct a memorial service in Kensington Drill Hall, In the evening, at 7 o’clock, a memorial service will be relayed from St. Paul’s 8 Anglican Cathedral, ,