ANZAC DAY ARRANGEMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 99, 29 April 1933, Page 12

ANZAC DAY ARRANGEMENTS.

May I commend to the consideration of those having the arrangement of seating accommodation at the Anzac Day ceremony at the Cenotaph that a very excellent one of previous years should be adhered to; that is, that elderly mothers of fallen soldiers should be given distinctive tickets, enabling them to have a seat near the front up till 2.45 p.m.? May I remind those in authority that, as the years go by, the infirmities of age of these mothers increase, the sight grows dimmer, the hearing is not so keen, the ability to endure very long waiting grows less, and for these reasons, and also that age itself is etitled to all considerate treatment, the mothers of fallen soldiers are entitled to preferential treatment. Seeing that my ticket named 2.45 p.m. as the limit of time to be seated, and I was in the enclosure at 2 p.m. or earlier, I should have found some seat near the front reserved. It was suggested that I sit on the concrete! Opposite were rows on rows of vacant seatsreserved for the City Council and the municipal choir; and my contention is that, in the same way that seats are reserved for these, so can the seats be kept for aged mothers of fallen soldiers. So may I again request that distinctive tickets be issued to these aged mothers, the number issued counted, and that number of seats reserved. J. A. MIDDLEBROOK.