ANZAC PARK

Nelson Evening Mail, 1 February 1917, Page 4

ANZAC PARK

"That/ .ground abandoned was •consecrated by blood as 'good as was ever shed in war,; Aor shall; Britain ajld' Australia ever/cease to hold it hallowed-v-We say God) bless the men. of Anzac," living arid dead, for their part in the deathless ; epic of the Daixlanejles." ' • ,v. •' —Loudon Observe*. Anzac.!. now a name.of/honour v Through all Australasia,.. ; t . Will be mentioned/"" with 'distinction All through future ,history.; • There our sons 'have 'proved their mettle, Facing worse than' bellisli. o.dds;. (For the freedom of their fathers, Like the Greek heroes and gods. / The effect of t'his is moral ! Rather than a fleeting. gain: > Sliou'iS what stuff our men are made of, And the courage'of the" slain. ' Let us honour, then, the fallen, . Though we may not 'bring them back! We have had no tbraver soldiers . Thai! "the be'ro'es ofArizac. \ " We will copy tihedr example, And. will all our forces bend, - Till oiir one united' purpose " • .Shall Ibe .gained 1 , aiid> war shall end; Till a proper world-tribunal) , Shall up once for all, 1 ; ; ■ To commemorate the spirit In which all fall. Five and twenty full contingents. Nelson has already sent 5 ~ , ; Voluntarily enlisted, riconscripted and content. All of them are truly Apzacs, v wheresoever they may fight 3 And to give them a memento.' ■lt is veryi meet and right. . Many mighty men have fallen. Many more have: made a mark. After all of them is christened • ' (Nelson's pretty Anzac Park. - ' • .7 •Neither will this be the only 'Lovely- local sign of'•fame; > But a monument Provincial Must'be built unto their, name. ; JOSiEIPH' TAYLOR. Nelson, V'. ' v February 1, 1917.