ANZAC SERVICES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22620, 24 April 1948, Page 6

ANZAC SERVICES

NO POSTPONEMENT INDOOR IF NECESSARY D ISTRICT OBSERVANCES If wet weather on Sunday should interfere with plans for the principal outdoor ceremonies in commemoration of the country’s sacrifices in war. An/ae Day services will be held indoors in almost all centres throughout the district. For the major function in Gisborne at 9.30 am., the wet-weather refuge will be the Army Hall, where arrangements will be made to seat elderly and invalid people. Local halls will be used by the Returned Services' Association in various district centres if that should prove necessary There will be no postponements of Anzac Day functions under any circumstances that can be foreseen. District Service at Memorial Present weather indications are that outdoor ceremonies will proceed as planned. Only on one or two occasions in the 33 years since the Anzac tradition was founded has it been necessary to vary the arrangements, although on other occasions April 25, the most significant anniversary established witnin the past 100 years in New Zealand, has brought mixed weather in Gisborne. Public celebrations in Gisborne have been put forward half an hour for this year, in order that the principal commemoration service at the War Memo riai should not interfere with church attendances The parade will fall in in Fitzherbert street, opposite the Army Hall, at 9 a.m., and will move off at 9.10 o'clock on the march to the War Memorial The service there will start at 9.30 a m., and should conclude before 10.15 a.ni. The address will be given by the United Kingdom High Commissioner in New Zealand. Sir Patrick Duff, who will arrive at Gisborne from Wellington by plane this afternoon and will stay in the district until Tuesday. A Start-To Finish Gallipoli Mail Sir Patrick Duff will attend the dawn parade at 5.45 a.m., and should find among the older servicemen gathered there a number whose service was coincident with his. He will represent at the muster the famous 29th Division, with which he served from the landing, at Cape Holies, on the lower end of the Gallipoli Peninsula, from the landing of the Imperial troops there on April 25, 1915, to the final withdrawal from Gallipoli on the night of January 8-9, 1916. He subsequently served with the same division in France and Belgium, where he was wounded, and later in Mesopotamia. Celebrations of the anniversary in out-of-town centres will include Ruatoria’s public service at 10.30 a.m., another at Whangara at the same time, functions at Patutahi, Waerenga-a-Hika and Manutuke at 2 p.m., and similar services at Te Karaka and Tokomaru Bay at 2.30 p.m

The Patutahi function will be the occasion of the unveiling of a memorial tablet in the Patutahi Hall in honour of those who lost their lives on the Second World War. A memorial function is also to be held at the Makaraka School at 11.15 a.m., where a library and tablet commemorating the area’s war sacrifices will be dedicated.