DAY OF REMEMBERANCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18381, 23 April 1923, Page 9

DAY OF REMEMBERANCE.

ANZAC COMMEMORATION.

PROGRAMME FOR WEDNESDAY

MASSED CITIZENS' SERVICE.

New Zealand's -Day of Remembrance will be solemnly commemorated on Wednesday, April 25, the eighth anniversary of the first Anzac Day. On that day, citizens will be asked to forego their ordinary avocations, their pleasures and every-day interests, and join in a tribute of remembrance to the men who made the word " Galiipoli " one of lasting glory in the archives of the nation.

By legal enactment and a common desire, Anzac Day in New Zealand is now held in the same solemnity and sanctity as Sunday. Ordinary business will be suspended; no newspapers will be published, and railways and tramways will run to a Sunday timetable. There will be no Main Trunk express from Auckland to Wellington on Tuesday evening, and no incoming train from Wellington on Thursday morning, but the express will leave as usual on Wednesday even-

ing. Solemn commemorative services will be held in the churches, and a massed citizens' service will take place at the Town Hall at eleven o'clock. The Mayor, Mr. J. H. Gunson, will preside, and the speakers will be Chaplain-Captain Percival James, and Chaplain-Captain J. M. Stewart, M.C. Admission tickets for the service may be obtained bv next-of-kin from, the secretary of the Returned Soldiers' Association, holders of which will be admitted from 10 a.m. until 10.40 a.m., when the general public will be admitted.

As in other years, one of the outstanding, events of Anzac Day will be the parade of returned soldiers, who will assemble at Queen's Wharf at 9.30 a.m. and march to the Town Hall. All returned soldiers are earnestly requested to take part in the parade, which for many years to come must remain one of the most impressive features of the commemoration of the historic landing. The King's Empire and South African war veterans will also hold memorial parades.

A cenotaph will be erected at the junction of Queen and Grey Streets, and here citizens will lay wreaths in token of remembrance of the heroic dead. The placing of the official wreaths will be conducted as a solemn ceremonial at the conclusion of the Town Hall service.

A memorial service, at which the Rev. C. H. Grant Cowen will preside, will also be held at St. Matthew's Church at 11 a.m. for those unable to obtain entrance to the Town Hall. Those desiring to do so may place wreaths and flowers in the church beneath the memorial window.

The Auckland Training College will hold an Anzac Day service in the College Hall, where an address will be given by the Rev. W. J. Shaw.- The Boy Scouts will parade in the Domain at half-past two on Wednesday afternoon. If the day is wet, the parade will be held in the Town Hall concert chamber. Addresses will be delivered by Captain Don, Messrs. Clutha Mackenzie and R. M. Beasted. •

Special services in connection with Anzac Day were held in various churches in the city yesterday.