ANZAC MEMORIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 276, 21 November 1932, Page 7

ANZAC MEMORIAL.

Broadcast from Port Said to The Dominions. CEREMONY ON WEDNESDAY. LONDON, November 20. A description of the unveiling of the Anzac Memorial at Port Said next Wednesday is to be broadcast to Australia and New Zealand.

The speeches will be transmitted over a land line to Cairo,, whence they will be wirelessed to London. From here they will be wirelessed to Sydney and thence to Wellington, arriving approximately at 11 p.m.

The Anzac Memorial at Fort Said waa designed by the late Charles W. Gilbert and completed by the late Sir Bertram Mackennal. It consists of a group of bronze etaiuary 14ft high, the figures shown being an Australian trooper on a rearing charger, and a New Zealander in the act of dismounting.

The memorial has been erected to the Anzac Mounted Division, Imperial Camel Corps, and the Australian Flying Corps. Mr. ■W. M. Hughes, a former Prime Minister of Australia, has accepted the invitation of the Commonwealth Government to unveil the memorial.

Field-Marshal Lord Allenby, Sir Granville Ryrie (Australian Sigh Commissioner), Sir Thomas Wilford (New Zealand High Commissioner), Mr. T. Trumble (Official Secretary to Australia House), and Sir Donald Cameron, of Brisbane, inspected the group at the foundry at Thames Ditton in July, and all expressed high approval of it.