CHRISTCHURCH PARADE
(Pros Actn. I CHRISTCHURCH, Apr. 27. More than 9000 people paraded through crowded Christchurch streets yesterday in the most impressive military and civic procession held here in years. Units, mounted and mechanised, of the military forces, air trainees from Wigram and Harewood, the Home Guard, nursing and ambulance personnel, and uniformed members of the women's war auxiliaries and every branch of the emergency precautions service, were Included in the parade, which took an hour and a-lialf to pass the saluting base. The parade was marked by the first public ap|K?arance in the South Island of the new. tanks made in New Zealand from converted bulldozers, and it gave the public a vivid impression of the rapid mechanisation of the Army.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 125, 28 April 1941, Page 2
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