ANZAC DAY SERVICES.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LVI, Issue 5989, 27 April 1935, Page 1

ANZAC DAY SERVICES.

COIViMERATION OF GALLIPOLI LANDING. ■PUSIiIG SERVICE AiT AKA;RiO!A WAR iMEMOiRTiAIL. Al large number were; present at the Anzac (Day commemoration. service held ait t'he Akaroa. War Meanor'da/1 o.n Thursday morning. Many beau tilful 1 wreaths were placed! at the base of the' Memorial! and the- surrounding lawn®' and. 1 floiwer bed's l provided a, fitting- and 1 peaceful setting for such a service of remembrance of the epic landing of our men; and the Australian's 'on the shores of Gaili'polil on 25 April, 119/16. The dfey was' fine with occasional! breaks l of sunshine. The school! children, under Messrs Young anld l Arnold, lined! up and there; were a number of returned soldiers alls® present. 'The attemfdiaiiieei of the Akaroa Sil 1 - ver Band and! tiheir playing of the National Anthem and hymns added considerably to the beauty of the ceremony. The service was conducted "by Rev. H, Nelson Wright and Rev. W. R. 'Bartll'e, and was opened) wilth the singing of tihe National Anthem. Mr Bar tie read) tihe 46 th Psalm and Mr Wright the prayers and benediction. The hymns .sung were the I'OOth Psalm, "O iGbd Our Help," and! Rudl- - 'Killing's "God of Our Fathres" ON 1 " ADIDRJHSIS !B!Y ,R ! EV. W. Rd. BARfTIUE Talking as his text: "Carry on'' an old war saying,, IRev. W. R. Bartle said l they had gathered there as men and l women and 1 boys' and' girls of 'NeKv Zealand, under the shadow of the War 'Memorial l to the soldiers and' nurses of their country who fell* in the Great War and the Soutih African Wa/r. ,Thlat day they were remembering more especially the landing on • iGal , li!p'6M l " p otf' the-'iAuis'liialdan and New Zealand forces, the Anzacs, twenty years- before'. They allso were remembering the men who fought in France, Palestine, Egypt and Galliipoli and those who hla.df stayed at home,, and whose sacrifice .was in many cases even greater. During the' l war the phrase, "'Carry On" wais commonly used. 'The war was .not aver and those mem who had 1 fought and died 'would• say t'ordlay, "Cany .Oh/' the struggle, which they had' started, to make things l safe for civilisation. 'There were nations ndw glorifying 1 war, there were men and women., boys and girls, who did' not remember the hlorrors of war. As a telegraph messenger and' on© of the raiilway staff he h!ad not forgotte'n the deliver ing of telegrams of -tihe death of a soldier, nor the departure of the troops in tiroiop trains,, many of whom never returned; Was there anything glori'ous in war? ;Ini the future war would mean destruction of men and' women not involved 1 at all. Recently there had been .a lot of talk of war which would have its- delfinite effect in jNe'w .Zealand, but as citizens* o(f this Empire they should! think albo.ut these things and' stand behind every force for peace.and: righteousness in the world. They should' be proud of •being 'Britisher® and the high ide'alis of the ißritiishi nation, which stood for international! liberty, fraternity and equality. They must, stand for peace and the highest' ideals of our nation.

•At the: caiucltusTOiiii of the service His Worship the Mayor, Mr F. Davis, placed l the citizens' wreath 1 o.n the IMemiori'al, 'and all! stood iiru silence;

A eoltection taikeni.up in aid oif the Banks Peininisui'la War Memorial! fundls 1 resulted dai £4 3.2s 3d: 'being contributed

MORNING SFRVICE AT ST, PETERS

CHURCH, About seventy attendied -the mounting' ..service at ißt. Peter's Church, ■when the vicar, Rerv. H. Nelson l Wright conducted .a .specdlaill lAnzac. service. Hymns were sung .ais follolws' :—'"Thy Kingdom] (Come/'- "When the Whole Family in Heaven and 1 Earth i® Nam'r cd/' &nd ! "Fight the iGood Fight." Special prayers were s-aixd for the relatives of those "who iel in the War, 'for the Empire forces o.n land amd' sea and iin the air, and! for the cause of peace', .SHjAIDIO/Wi OIF WAR 1 ISLmiNIG TO IMIST. T'lie Vicar ispoike on the shadow of the Great War and 1 its memories which wene sMippinig' inito the! pa.st. It was being' found inicreasiingily difficult to .keep up the spiMt of Anzac Day ainid to find l a new message. It was •sure'ly our ibusiniasis to .keep it in the memory 'of a great past andl a,s a red letter day on 'the calendar 'because it was 1 a war for right eousneiss and! peace. A neiw generation! was glowing up "who did not knoiw tlhe horror of war; hut theiy should 1 he l 'taught the lessionis of the war which had been hell on earth. .Twenty years before the iAusitrafcins anicl! New ZeaiFand'ens had kin de'd 'osi the l beaches off GaMipoM and experienced theuY baptismal; fire. They miis't try and remember those whloi gave fcheiiir liitveis or came back broken ain.d crilppilied and- affls'o all those who