ANZAC DAY SERVICES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 24 April 1945, Page 4

ANZAC DAY SERVICES

CITY CEREMONY TO-MORROW MORNING The Nelson Anzac Day Memorial Service will be held to-morrow morning at the Church Steps , commencing at 10 o’clock, when the speaker will be Mr B. J. Jacobs, of Palmerston North, Dominion President of the N.Z.R.S.A. The service will be preceded by a parade j of returned servicemen and service- ! women, Army and Air Force units and j local organisations. The parade will move off at 9.45 o’clock from the Post j OC.ce, marching to the Church Steps j via Trafalgar street. In the event of j rain the ceremony will be held in the 1 Majestic Theatre. A wreath will be I laid on the South African Memorial, j Queen’s Gardens at 9.5 a.m. by South African veterans. Services in the country districts will be held as follows;—Richmond. 2.30 j p.m. in Town Hall (speaker. Mr A. j Fowler); Stoke 10 a.m.. Recreation Ground Gates; Brightwater, 3 p.m. ! (Mr J. Grigg); Wakefield. 10.30 a.m. at | Memorial (Mr A. Hunter); Dovedale, 2.30 p.m. (Mr R. A. Steelman); Tapawera, 2 p.m. at Park (Mr J. F. Balck); : Motupiko, 10.30 a.m. at Memorial (Mr J. F. Balck); Murchison, 2.15 p.m.. at ! War Memorial: Collingwood, 2 p.m.; Bainham, 11 a.m.; Ngatimoti, Anglican Church, 10.30 a.m. (Rev. W. A. Beaumont); Tasman. Presbyterian Church, i 11 a.m. (Rev. D. Blair and Dr A. R. Green): Riwaka. Memorial Gates. 10.30 a.m. (Rev. J. H. Combes and Adjutant Scott): Motueka. Memorial, 2.30 p.m. (Rev. J. H. Combes); Takaka. Memorial, 2 p.m.