PLACE OF BEAUTY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 138, 14 June 1938, Page 9

PLACE OF BEAUTY.

ST. MARY'S TO-DAY.

GARDEN OF WREATHS.

FROM GREAT AND LOWLY.

Place of beauty and quiet sanctity at all times, with its timbered eaves, its polished brasses and its stained glass windows, St. Mary's Cathedral this afternoon wore an added beauty—the beauty of autumn wreaths.

Sent from the great and from the lowly in the land, some were magnificent, bearing a stamp of dignity and grandeur, and others were simply and obviously a few hastily collected wild flowers.

Yet before the Union Jack-draped bier„ on which were placed a sword and a military cap, all,wreaths were raised to a common level because of the unity of message and sentiment which they convcved.

Some of them bore simply a name with a formal message of sympathy. Others conveyed a more personal message. One said "To an officer and a gentleman"; another "To tlie soldiers' life-long friend"; yet another, from the Sunshine School, had been obviously written by a child, because the writing was in the carefully-made pothooks of Standard VI.

Among the wreaths sent were those from the following:—The - GovernorGeneral, Lord Galway, and Lady Galway; the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage; N.Z. Returned Soldiers' Association, Auckland R.S.A., Wellington R.S.A., Remuera R.S.A., Newmarket R.S.A., returned army nursing sisters, ex-pupils Sunshine School, Dominion Wrestling Union, Old Contemptibles, manager and staff", Auckland municipal abattoir, Civic Theatre, Waitemata Electric Power Board, Mount Eden Borough Council, Community Sunshine Association staff and suburban branches, children of the Sunshine School, Nelson Street, N<jw Zealand Territorial Association, Dominion headquarters of the Soldiers' Civil Re-establishment League and its Auckland branch, Auckland City Council, staff" of City Council, Town Clerk (Mr. J. Melling).

The Auckland Orphans' Club, Point Chevalier cx-Servic6nicn J s Association, Eden-Roskill, Waikato, Otahuhu, Rotoj rua, Rodney and Warkworth, Royal Oak-Epsom, Franklin R.S.A.'s, British | Legion of ex-Imperial Men, New Zealand j Blinded Soldiers' Association, Limbless I Soldiers' Association (Wellington), New I Zealand Rifle Brigade Officers' Association, Auckland ex-Servicewomen's AssoI ciation, New Zealand Military % Forces ! and civil staff of the Army Department, Australian Imperial Force ex-Service-men's Association, Social Club, Maori Returned Soldiers' Club. Local Bodies. Parnell branch League of Mothers, Auckland branch Royal Societ}' of St. George, Women's National Reserve (Auckland), Leys Institute, Auckland Zoological Society, Auckland Harbour Board, staff of Auckland City Council, Auckland Citizens and Ratepayers' Association, Mount Albert Borough Coun-., cil, Devonport Borough Council, One Tree Hill Borough Council, staff of Town Clerk's* department (Auckland), Auckland Suburban Drainage Board, Auckland City Council traffic department, Manukau County Council, wust manager and staff of Jfew Zealand Insurance Company, directors of New Zealand News-' papers, Limited, Waitemata Electric Power Board.

King's College Old Boys' Association, Mr. and Mrs. B. J. McKendrick, Renin - era Bowling Club, Uncle Tom and the Children's Choir, Auckland* 44 Club, Tjieutenant-Colonel and Mrs. W. S. Stilwell, Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs. T. H. Dawson, Mr. Oliver Nicholson, Sir Andrew and Lady Russell, Colonel Sir Heaton Rhodes. Mr. J. Sayegli, Mr. and i Mrs. J. S. Brigham.