ANZAC DAY.
DAY OF SACRED MEMORIES
NOT PROPERLY OBSERVED.
HY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT SYDNEY, Sept. 11. A deputation . representing the churches, patriotic associations, and women’s organisations asked the Chief secretary (Mr Oakes) to legislate to provide for stricter observance of Anzac Day. They asked him to place it on the same footing as Good Friday and Christmas Day by dosing the hotels and prohibiting races. They complained that under existing conditions the aay was desecrated and made a day of pleasure and excess by wholeand unlimited sooTt, instead of a day of sacred memories. Mr Oakes said the Government intended to act along the lines suggested, including the issue of a proclamation forbidding tlie opening of hotels and the holding of race meetings.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 September 1924, Page 5
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122ANZAC DAY. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 September 1924, Page 5
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