AUCKLAND REGIMENT
TROOPING OF COLOUR
PICTURESQUE CEREMONY
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, June 4. The. ceremony of trooping and consecration of the King's colours of the first, second, and third battalions of the Auckland Regiment, N.Z.E.F., -was held today at the cenotaph. The picturesque and impressive military and naval ceremonial was watched in the rain, by several thousands of spectators. The Governor-General (Lord Bledisloe), who referred to the magnificent war record of the regiment, took the salute. The colours were handed to officers of the regiment by Sir Stephen Allen, Colonel A. Plugge, and Major Coates, who were the actual officers who brought the colours back to New Zealand after the war. After being consecrated by Archbishop Averill, the colours were handed over to the authorities of the War Memorial Museum for safe keeping. A feature of the ceremony was the smart bearing of a detachment of French sailors from the French sloop in port. ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 130, 5 June 1933, Page 15
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154AUCKLAND REGIMENT Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 130, 5 June 1933, Page 15
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