MILITARY CHURCH PARADE

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 8 November 1935, Page 7

MILITARY CHURCH PARADE

MOUNTED RIFLES REGIMENT. WANGANUI BAND TO' ATTEND. The annual church parade of the Queen Alexandra’s Mounted Rifles will be held on Sunday morning next at St. Mary’s Church, this being the nearest Sunday "to Armistice Day. Following on the arrangements carried out last year, the parade will leave the drill Ball at JL0.30 aim., marching to the church via Princes, High and Union Streets and Glovei Road. Various members of troops outside Hawera have advised they will be present and it is hoped to have a really strong representative parade ol the regiment.

Other units on parade will be the Hawera platoon ot the Ist Battalion xaranaki Regiment and by permis sion of the principal of the Hawera Technical High School (Major J. Dash), the school cadet company will also be on parade. The cadet company will be under the command of Captain Whitehead. Lieut.-Col. T. L. Gibbs, V.D., J.P., commanding the Q. will be in command and with his ptermission the regimental guidon will be carried by S.S. Major R. Johns. Last year a strong body of returneel soldiers headed the parade and an invitation has again been extended to all returned men to parade with the troops. A plcasjng feature to Hawera people will be the visit to their headquarters of the band of the Queen Alexandra's Mounted Rifles - from Wanganui, who 'will be accompanied on, the parade by the pipe band attached to the regiment, all the members of the latter being Hawera men. The band has received permission to play in the park on Sunday afternoon. Favourable comments were fcfcely expressed last year at the presence in church of a body of girls from the Hawera Technical High School and it is understood that the girls have expressed their intention of again attending .next Sunday. A special service has been arranged and the sermon will be preached by the Rev. Canon D. B. Malcolm, vicar of St. Mary’s.