MONDAY'S IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY.

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 96, 23 April 1921, Page 6

MONDAY'S IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY.

On Monday forenoon a solemn and impressive ceremony will take placa at the Cenotaph (a memorial to the soldiers whose bodies lie in Prance, Belgium, Palestine, England, and other places) erected by the Returned Soldiers' Association at the triangle opposite the Government Buildings, Lambton-qoay. Scholars from every public school in the city and suburbs will each in turn step forward and reverently lay. a wreath at the foot of the memorial, and at 11 o'clock a simple service will be held. All traffic in the neighbourhood will be suspended during the ceremony. The arrangements for the service and for the receipt of floral offerings to be placed on the soldiers' graves at Karori are in the hands of the W.N.R. Girls' Club, the members of which have kept the graves in order and placed flowers upon them. In the afternoon at 3 o'clock a memorial service will be held in the Town Hall. During its march to ;the hall the Salvation Army Band will play "The Garland of Flowers." / Returned soldiers axe requested to wear their wax medals and ribbons at these ceremonies. Aa stated in last evening's Post, Monday will be observed as a general holiday of a special nature. Work will cease in most offices and business premises. Special church services will be held aa announced elsewhere. In order to allow aa many of the staff as possible off duty on Anzrtc Day, the Postmaster-General has issued instructions that telegrams may be received only between 10 a.m. and 10.30 a.m., and 5 p.m. and 5.30 p.m. on Monday. The out-patients' department of the Public Hospital will be closed on Monday. Urgent cases will be treated at the Main Hospital. A Sunday service only will be run on the city and suburban tramways, except for the provision that has been made to take 2500 children to and from the ceremony at the cenotaph in the forenoon. / ' Special Anzac services will be held in the Kilbimie Methodist circuit on Sunday. At Maranui in the morning Mr. T. Fathers will unveil a memorial photo, of the late Lieut. Clarke, killed in action near Bapaume in August, 1918. During the evening service at Hataitai Mr. O. M. Luke will unveil the roll of honour provided by the Sunday School. Both services will be conducted by Chaplain Read, late of the N.Z. hospital ship Marama. At Trinity Methodist Church to-mor-row evening the Rev. E. Drake will preach on "Anzac and a Disappointed World." There will be a musical service. Members of the Wellington R.S.A. are reminded of the parade which takes place to-morrow, Sunday, 24th April. Returned soldiers will assemble at 2 p.m. at their olub rooms, and march, together with the Maori War and South African veterans, to St. Mark's Church,' where a combined memorial service is to be held. The president of the Wellington R.S.A. (Mr. W. Perry) urgently requests a big muster to show appreciation of comrades . of .previous wars. At the Unitarian Church, Vivianstreet, to-morrow night, Rev. Wyndham Heathcote will deliver a lecture on the question, "Is War , a Darwinian Struggle?" Mr. Heathcote served as chaplain to H.M. Forces in South Africa. Special services will be held in Wesley Church, Taranaki-street, to-morrow. In the morning the church roll of honour will be unveiled, Major-General Sir Alfred Robin performing the unveiling ceremony. The minister of the 'church, Rev. H. E. Bellhouse, will conduct the service. Returned soldiers and their friends are specially invited., In the evening the Rev. J. F. Goldie, for 19 years missionary in the Solomons, will preach on " Life Amongst the Headhunters in the Western Solomons." Mr. Goldie will lecture in the church on Monday evening on " The Problem of Saving a Race."