OBSERVANCE OF ANZAC DAY IN PAEROA

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3111, 27 April 1942, Page 5

OBSERVANCE OF ANZAC DAY IN PAEROA

CEREMONY ON PRIMROSE HILL ON SATURDAY APPEAL FOR 100 PER CENT. WAR EFFORT With well over sixty beautiful wreaths, both official tributes and from the general public, placed on the Cenotaph combined with one of the biggest attendances seen m Paeroa for years, the Anzac commemoration service held on Primrose Hill on Saturday was an impressive one. Over 1000 people assembled to pay fitting tribute to those who made the supreme sacrifice in the last and present Great Wrics ■> The .Weather was perfect, bright sunshine with very Tittle wind making conditions ideal for the . In addressing the assembly the Mayor, Mr Edwin Edwards, in an impressive address emphasised the deb o gratitude the nation owed to the men of Anzac both of the 1914-18 war and the present struggle and appealed tor a 100 per cent, war effort from the people of Paeroa. Led by the returned soldiers a splendid parade ot Hottie Guardsmen, the Paeroa Municipal Band, Womens War Service Auxiliary, St. John Ambulance, Fire Bnga e, Cadets, Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, marched from the Paeroa Post Office to the Cenotaph. The parade sti etched from the Post Office well round into Thames road and was one of the biggest ever seen in Paeroa. Children from the Paeroa District High School and from St. Joseph s Convent School together with the Brownies and Gubs also took part in the ceremony, being assembled at the Cenotaph.