WREATH IN ICE

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 6, 9 January 1928, Page 8

WREATH IN ICE

A QUJET CEREMONY (From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, 19th November. A wreath packed in ice was dispatched to London by the Headquarters of tho New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association. It was sent to Captain V. Crawshaw, the New Zealand representative of the association on the British Empire Service League, and it should have arrived in Londoa iv time to bo placed at the Cenotaph on Armistice Day. Arriving a day or two late, arrangements were made for a little ceremony at the Cenotaph one morning this week. Tho block of ice, weighing about a hundredweight, was brought up in a van and was placed on tho north side of the Cenotaph. Though tho ice was clear and the native foliage and berries could be plainly seen, tho surface of the block was scarred by several deep cracks. Sir James Parr (the High Commissioner), Captain Donald Simpson (hon. secretary of the British Empire Service League), and Captain. CVrawshaw we?e present, and about fifty other people watched the ceremony. Some of them were- there to inspect the flowers which were placed at tho Cenotaph on Armistice Day and others had been attracted by tho unusual sight of the unloading of iho large block of inc. At a given moment the High Commissioner approached the wreath 'and laid on the top of it a card bearing the in-, scription: "In memory of the fallen. New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association." He then stood with head uncovered and bowed for a minute before the Cenotaph, and the little cere- ! mony was over. Afterwards .the peo- [ pie crowded round to examine tk«-m»----i usual form- of "wreath.