AMERICAN MEMORIAL DAY

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 206, 29 May 1944, Page 6

AMERICAN MEMORIAL DAY

Observance In Dominion American Memorial Day*—the day on which United States citizens honour their servicemen who have died on active ser-vice-will be observed tomorrow, no mark the occasion appropriate ceremonies will be held, in Auckland and. Wellington. , The Wellington ceremony_ .will take place at the ’Wellington Citizens War Memorial at 12.30 p.m., when wreaths will be laid by consular officials, the Government, and the N.Z.R.S.A. At this ceremony short addresses will be given by Mr. Warren H. Atherton, National Commander of the American Legion, and Mr. B. J. Jacobs. Dominion president ot the N.Z.R.S.A. A short prayer will be offered* by Captain Peterson, U.S. Naval Chaplain. . , The official wreaths will be received by Mrs. Prescott Childs, on behalf of the mothers of America, and at 3 p.m. ad the wreaths and flowers will he taken out to Karori Cemetery, where they will be distributed on the graves of American servicemen by American women resident m We lington. , . The NZR S.A. appeals to members of the public'for gifts of flowers and roseninrv for this purpose. These may he left at the Wellington U.S.A, premises, 1Victoria Street, this afternoon or tomorrow morning. Country residents desiring to send flowers may leave them at the nearest railway station addressed to “Aincricflii Servicemen s Gru\cs,-C/ o vsei* liU The American Itegion. of which Mr. Warren H. Atherton is National Commander, is the counterpart in the United states to the N.Z.R.S.A., and oil Buesday evening Mr. Atherton will be tne ■guest of the Dominion president and executive of the N.Z.R.S.A. Ihe Legion lias -r-inted 2000 dollars to bo expended on the decoration of graves of U.S. servicemen In Australia and Zettmiw-

\s the result of Saturday’s poll the hHC-bolidav in Taumariinui will bo changed from Wednesday to Saturday-