WAR MEMORIAL

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 167, 11 April 1932, Page 10

WAR MEMORIAL

Details of Dedication Ceremony BANDS AND BIG CHOIR The dedication and handing over to the city of the Wellington Citizens’ War Memorial will take place on Sunday next at 2.30 p.m.’ iri the presence of his Excellency the Governor-General and Lady Bledisloe. . At a meeting of the committee last week, Captain H. T. Marshall, Director of Ceremonies, reported that arrangements were well in hand. The dedication will be performed by the Rt. Rev. the Bishop of Wellington, Bishop Sprott. Details have been finalised to cope with a very large attendance. The guard of honour will be furnished by the Ist Battalion, Wellington Regiment, and the Wellington Artillery Band will attend the guard'. Large Number of Troops. Positions have been allotted to the Navy, Territorials, Cadets, South African Veterans, Returned Soldiers, and Legion of Frontiersmen. In view of the considerable number of troops and general public expected, five ambulance posts have been arranged for at various points. These are to be supplied by the St. John Ambulance Association and will be under Captain W. Dutton, V.D., Corps Superintendent. Accommodation has been reserved for disabled soldiers and returned nurses, also for 600 next-of-kin. It has been arranged with general headquarters to provide four sentry posts on the memorial, a special guard being detailed from the Trentham staff for this purpose. Sentries in Battle Order. The sentries will be equipped in battle order, standing with arms reversed, the posts being ..manned from 1 p.m. till 2.20 p.m. They will be withdrawn during the progress of the ceremony, and will take up their posts again from the conclusion until 5.30 p.m. 1 A choir of 100 will be in attendance under Mr. 11. Temple White, and will be assisted by .the champion band, Port Nicholson, under Mr. Drew. The "Last Post" and “Reveille” > will be sounded by the Navy and Army buglers together. , A detail of returned soldiers will act as ushers, and a party of thirty Sea Scouts, under Mr. Lawton, will distribute the programmes. Arrangements are being made for laying official wreaths.

Seating Accommodation. The troops will approach their position from Bunny Street, and the returned soldiers from Lnmbton Quay south. Seating accommodation on chairs has been arranged on the footpath and on the platform leading to the memorial. All ticket-holders will enter by the Whitmore Street gates to Government Buildings grounds, thence through the centre gate of grounds to Lambton Quay. Mr. L. S. Drake, chief traffic inspector, has arranged for the roping off of the required space, and his staff, together with the police, will be in attendance on the day. A set of loudspeakers will be used, and broadcasting arrangements are being made.