12,000 TO PARADE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 108, 9 May 1941, Page 5

12,000 TO PARADE

CITY DEFENCE FORCE

PLANS FOR TO-MORROW

Provided the weather remains fine, Aucklanders will see to-morrow the most spectacular parade ever held in the city. About 12,000 members of home defence and auxiliary services will take part and the long column, marching six abreast, will Pj? Played through the principal by 1? bands posted at '( intervals. * It is impracticable for more than of mechanised units to Participate in the parade, which has been ordered by the Government as » demonstration of home defence preparedness. The highlight will be *f B-ton New Zealand-made tank, while there will also be Bren guni carriers, and eight mechanised fieldl Suns. I -,J h ® parade will start at two *Lui w and the route to be followed wiH.be Park Road, Grafton Bridge, Aarangahape Road and Queen «,-,!♦ to Customs Street, where the inrii - rf Wlll se P ai *ate and proceed to : ffld vidual dismissal points. A salute hv .S 6 ken outsid e the Town Hall' Newai! Governor - General - Sir Cyril \ foiT^f e taking P art win include the | Mi ?£~ g: territorial Force, National Zeaffi Reserv e and Royal New! G^ d cn Air Force, 4570; Home sK e s £°° ; Eme rgency Precautions' 1700; Women's NatkSTo* Aux *liary and Women's national Service Corps, 1000. Pr£ e a h Territorial force will comK d ab n out 20 "nits and the Home 60001 J?n™ e ', ing be tween 5000 and ■BeV£V n f lude a det achment of

Ambulance and auxiliaries, and Red Cross and auxiliaries will represent the Emergency Precautions Scheme Organisation. ] Continuous Marching Music As it is expected that it will take the parade 35 minutes to pass any point on the route, the bands are being posted in pairs so that they can play in pairs alternately as ths column passes, thus providing con- ; tinuous marching music right along ,the route. The bands and their , stations will be as follows:— Women's National Service Corps '(Domain Kiosk); Te Akarana Girlsj 'and Blind Institute (Domain); Avtil-I fiery and New Lynn Citizens' (Graf-I I ton Road); National Military Reserve , and Ponsonby Silver (corner of Symonds Street and Karangahape ■Road); Auckland (East Coast) Mounted Rifles and Balmoral Silver (Baptist Tabernacle); Ist Battalion, Auckland Regiment and Papakura Camp (Town Hall); Auckland Waterside Workers' and Congress Hall (Strand Arcade); Takapuna and City Boys (New Zealand Insurance Building); Newmarket Citizens and Pipers of the Ist Battalion, New Zealand ■ Scottish Regiment (corner of Com[merce and Customs Streets). The parade will be under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel W. McK. Geddes, M.C., N.Z.A., officer commanding the northern fortress area, who will have as staff officer Major J. L. Scoullar, N.Z.S.C., brigade major for the northern fortress area. The Yugoslav community is to make a street collection for patriotic funds to-morrow, and Yugoslav girls will take charge of stalls in Queen Street and Karangahape Road in the morning, the Y.W.C.A. assisting. The!, stalls will later be removed so as not to interfere- with the parade, and the collectors will line the route.