ANZAC DAY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIV, Issue XLIV, 28 April 1924, Page 7

ANZAC DAY.

AT THE CENOTAPH

MASS OF WREATHS,

*V CABLB—PIIJISB ASSOCIATION—COPTBIGHT LONDON, April 25. A mass of wreaths was deposited at ■! the cenotaph in commemoration of Anzac Day, apart from Governmental and regimental tributes. Lady Allen (wife of the New Zealand High Commissioner) placed a wreath on 1 behalf of the Auckland Women's • Union. Later in the morning a comI memoration service was held at St. Clement Danes, on the war shrine of which Sir James Allen placed a tribute trom the New Zealand Government. = la the afternoon he deposited Government wreaths on the graves of New Zealanders at Brookwood and Walton-on-Thamea. At the Anzac Day luncheon at the , Hotel Cecil, Mr J. H. Thomas (Secrei tary for the Colonies) was the guest of : honour. The toast of "Our Great j Dead was pledged in silence. Sir Joseph Cook (Australian High Commissioner) toasted Mr Thomas as steward of the greatest land estate in the-world. Sir Joseph .said Mr Thomas I would have the loyal support and sympathetic help of those concerned in the results of his administration. !■■ Mr Thomas, in reply, paid a tribute to the heroes of Gallipoli, and said , that if they were going to pay ! tribute to these men their efforts should be directed to seeing that they had not died in vain. The country must see that statesmen of the future would take care that military and naval achievements were not thrown away by any political or ill-advised action on their part. Politicians might dogma- [ tise, but the world's peace and the Kmpire?a prosperity were more important than party interests. t I Sir James Allen cabled to the officer m charge- o£ the Imperial War Graves at Gallipoli as follows: j ''My thoughts are with you on this dayj hallowed ta the memory of the glorious dead." LONDON, April 26. The Morning Post, in an editorial on Anzac Day, says: "Doubtless it is true, as the Secretary for the Colonies said yesterday, that the occasion has nothing to do with politics, but nevertheless it is perhaps a mistake entirely: to dis- \ sociate politics from the great Imperial event, whether the ultimate result was success or failure, if only because the best way to honour the memory of the fallen is to see that politics are so guided in future that noble and valuable lives shall not have been lost in = vain." The Australian pavilion at Wembley closed earlier in honour of Anzac Day^ ,