ANZAC DAY
SERVICE AT CENOTAPH
"TRIBUTE TO THE FALLEN"
Arrangements have been completed for the Anzac Day commemoration service which is to be held at the Wellington Citizens' War Memorial on Saturday, April 25. The service has been organised by the Wellington Returned Soldiers' Association, assisted by the Women's National Reserve, and with the co-operation of the Wellington Education Board and the Wellington Headmasters' Association, and will be similar to the service held last year except that the ceremony of placing wreaths in the shrine of remembrance will be shortened. Representatives of the various schools and colleges will place their wreaths at 2.15, a quarter of an hour before the official service commences. A feature of the service will be the singing for the first time of the hymn, "Gaba Tepe, a Tribute to the Fallen."
Commencing- at 2.30, the service will be conducted by the Rev. N. F. E. Robertshaw, M.C., M.A. (Anglican), who will offer the prayer; the lesson from Ephesians xi: 10-18 will be read by the. Rev. Arthur Muriel, M.C., B.A. (Congregational), Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Walls, M.C. (Salvation Army), will deliver the address. The Port Nicholson Silver. Band, under Mr. J. Drew, will supply the music for the hymns, the "Last Post" will be sounded by buglers of the Ist Battalion, Wellington Regiment, under SergeantBugler C. James, and the "Reveille" will be given by Trumpeter J. Chegwin. At the conclusion of the service the parade will march past and salute the Cenotaph.
ANZAC DAY
Evening Post, Issue 82, 6 April 1936, Page 16
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