ANZAC DAY

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 12730, 1 May 1939, Page 4

ANZAC DAY

SERVICE AT KATIKATI

iFrom Our CorrespondentJ , The, significance of' x ' Aniad • Day was convincingly brought! 'home to the people of the Katikati -district in the touching service held’in Henderson’s Hall, which 1 was" filled! - with residents from all 'parts of, the district.' ' ■ ■ 1 ’! : At 1.15 p.m. ah b6dy consisting, of Returned Soldiers; and members of the Katikati contingent of the Mounted Rifles*; marched do the Hall to the ‘ acepjmpaniment of appropriate music from r the newlyformed Katikati Silver Band-. ■ The seryice, which took'.',place at 1.30, commenced with the;singing of the National Anthem.;;i . Thev President of the Returned.Soldiers’ Association, Mr. O. P. Coleman),; was* in the chair. The Rev. E.; A: Addis, the Anglican minister, took the 1 prayers and announced the hymns. ‘ * 1 The address was given by the Presbyterian Minister, Mr, Stewart, whose touching references ; those brave men who failed to Return brought back vivid memories -to. the- returned men of their lost and their days together, not only Vm Gallipoli but in many different fronts through-, out Europe. Mr. Stewart made pointed 1 reference to’ the troubled state of the world ■ tb-day atfd expressed the fervent ho pel that war may yet be avoided by means of friendly collaboration amongst all hatibns. ' ' 1/ . ... ■/ . Mr/ .haying pronounce® ;the ; benedictiOn; : 1 Returned 1 Sdidifers and,.'; 'th^ > ; Mo^ttt^d; > ''p.ifles f prbcedfd by | the ' hand, ;ymkii;cHed.; ’in. formation to (the ■Doi^^in, I ;'fbr-^ti|e ',~ot payirig hd;inhge ! '('to-, ■thc ' herbes "-'from Katikati' fence of’the Empire, hy ,thp placing of wreaths at the the iVlemorial Gates. Mr. B. to the assembled the,list of those who had Mr, Coleman laid a .wreath, .op. behalf of, the Returned Soldiers’Association. Lieutenant H. ;o then followed with a wreath . from the. Mounted Rifles, and .wa? in turn followed by mourners, both; relatives and friends, •of the dece,aaed>perso,ns. Tributes having been 1 , -paid ;tp . the precious memories, Mr.i ,E> ; S. Hooper raised the Union Jack and the gathering then dispersed.., - r . ; ,........ . •