FIGHTING FORKS HIND

Evening Star, Issue 23882, 12 May 1941, Page 4

FIGHTING FORKS HIND

COLLECTION BY YUGOSLAV GIRLS HOME DEFENCE PARADE [Per United Press Association,] AUCKLAND, May 10. Girls attired iu the picturesque cos* tumes of Yugoslavia provided festive scenes in the main city streets to-day collecting for the Fighting Forces Fund as a patriotic gesture made by the Yugoslav community when they; found that they were unable to torward assistance to the people of their, own stricken country. A generous re-, spouse was made by the citizens, who thronged the city streets in large numbers in anticipation of a parade ofi 12,000 members of the Home Defence services and Emergency Precautions Organisation. .■ The parade assembled, at the Domain, leaving at 2 o’clock and proceeding six abreast via. the Grafton Bridge, Karangahape road, and Queen, street past the Town Hall, _ where the Governor-General (Sir Cyril Newall) took the salute. Included in the parad® were a 28-ton tank and a number of Bren gun carriers and mechanised field guns. The parade was played from point to point by 17 stationary bands* and a feature was the first public appearance of the Auckland Scottish uniii in Black Watch kilts. The Governor-General, Sir Cyril Newall, has sent the following tele* gram to the Acting Prime Minister* Mr Nash:— “ Will you please convey to all con* cerned my appreciation of the bearing of all who took part in the official parade held in Auckland? In thistima of crisis, I am certain such parades can but inspire and encourage all citizens of the Dominion to play then* part to the full in the prosecution oi| the war to a victorious conclusion.”