Civic Honours For Returned Servicemen

Northern Advocate, 26 February 1944, Page 2

Civic Honours For Returned Servicemen

Next Friday, Whangarei will give public honour to servicemen and servicewomen returned from overseas.

Following similar arrangements to those carried out when the first furlough men returned from the Middle East, a parade will be held to the Town Hail, where a civic reception will be given to be followed by a complimentary luncheon. The legal and finance committee of the Whangarei Borough Council last night set up a special committee, comprising the deputy-Mayor (Mr. L. Reynolds) and Crs. S. J. Snow, S. Oldcorn and R. J. N. Crosby to make arrangements for a civic reception and complimentary luncheon to ail returned servicemen and servicewomen including repatriated prisoners of war, voluntary aids, women’s army auxiliary, sick and wounded, Navy, mercantile marine, and air force, from both the Middle East and Pacific sections.

Parade Arrangements

Both reception and luncheon will take place next Friday and will be preceded by a parade from the drill hail to the Town Hall. It is proposed that the Whangarei and County Pipe Band should lead the parade, followed by the High School Cadets, the returned servicemen and servicewomen fad the Air Training Corps. At the Town Hall the cadets will break into two ranks and form a guard of honour for the servicemen as they march into the hall.

The reception concluded, they will march headed by the municipal band to the servicemen’s hut in Rathbone Street, where lunch will be served by members of the women’s patriotic activities sub-committee under the direction of its canteen sub-committee.