9000 in Impressive Christchurch Parade
Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, April 27. More than 9000 paraded through crowded Christchurch streets yesterduy iu the most impressive military and civic procession held here in years. Units, mounted and mechanised, of the military forces, air trainees from Wigram aud Harewood, the Home Guard, nursing aud ambulance persouuel 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-half to pass the saluting base. The parade was marked by the first public appearance in the South Island of the new tanks made in New Zealand from converted bulldozers, aud it gave the public a vivid extent of the rapid mechanisation of the Army. The salute was taken by Brigadier O. H. Alead, and with him on the saluting base were the Alinister of National Service (Hon. R. Semple) and the Alinister of Supply (Hon. I). G. Sullivan). The crowd which attended was estimated at about 60,000,
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 99, 28 April 1941, Page 4
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