ARMISTICE DAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 267, 10 November 1934, Page 10

ARMISTICE DAY.

SUNDAY OBSERVANCE. CEREMONY AT THE DOMAIN. SPECIAL CHURCH SERVICES. Following exactly the procedure of other years, Armistice Day will be observed in Auckland to-morrow, when the main ceremony will take place at the Cenotaph before the War Memorial Museum. Jn order that congregations may observe the customary two minutes' silence, the services in the churches in the city will begin before 11 o'clock.

The arrangements for the observance of Armistice Day at the Cenotaph have been drawn up by the Returned .Soldiers' Association, anil the programme is on the lines of other years. From 10.10 a.m. to 10.45 a.m. appropriate music will be played by the band of the Jubilee Institute for the Blind. School children in two parties will move to the western side of the Cenotaph at 10.40 a.m., and the guard provided by the King's College cadets will be mounted. At 10.52 the official party will move to the northern side of the Court of Honour, and the officers detailed to lower the flags will take up their positions. The National Anthem and the hymn "Abide With Me" will be played, and at 11 a.m. a gun will be fired from the Naval depot, and the two minutes' silence will be observed. Then the new flags will be raised on the Cenotaph, and the "Reveille" played by the buglers. This will be followed by the laying of wreaths at the foot of the Cenotaph, first fiy the official party, then by the children, and by members of the public. The hymn "Nearer, My God, to Thee," will be played, after which the official party will take up a position behind the Hag party, and the president of the Returned Soldiers' Association will present the flags to representatives of the schools.

The schools to receive the flags are: Remuera School, New Zealand Ensign; Mount Eden School, Union Jack; Newmarket School, Australian Ensign; Royal Oak School, White Ensign; Mount Koskill School, Blue Ensign; Graf ton School, Red Ensign. The ceremony will close with the playing of the National Anthem. Church Services. In many of the churches special services will be held. At the King's School, at 9.45 a.m., an Armistice service will be held, and at the King's College chapel, at 7 p.m., at the annual Armistice Day service, a stained-glass window in memory of Cadet John Plugge, K.A.F., who lost his life while training with the Air Force in England, will be unveiled. The preacher will be the headmaster, the Rev. H. K. Archdall. The King's College Old Boys' Association will hold a memorial service in the chapel, King's College, Middlemorc, at 7 p.m. The British Legion will hold a special service at the Holy Sepulchre Church at C.4i> p.m., at which the preacher will be Padro J. E. Draper.

Members of the Ponsonby and Heme Bay Ex-Servicemen's Association will attend the service at All Saints' Church to-morrow morning, the Ponsdnby Boys' Band leading the procession from the Ponsonby Drill Hall to the church. ./The preacher will be the Rev. W. W. Ayerill. Members of the Eclen-Roskill Returned 'Soldiers'' Club will assemble at the corner of Valley and Dominion Roads, and march to the Mount Eden Congregational Church at 10.15 a.m. The Victoria League lias arranged for services to be held at O'Neill's Point cemetery at 10 a.m., and at the Waikumete cemetery. A bus will leave from the Pacific Buildings at 2 p.m. Exservicemen will wear decorations and medals at the services they attend.