ANZAC MEMORIAL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21345, 21 November 1932, Page 9

ANZAC MEMORIAL

PORT SAID UNVEILING

BROADCAST TO DOMINIONS

(Received November 20, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 19 A description of the unveiling of the Anzac Memorial at Port Said next Wednesday is to»be broadcast to Australia and New Zealand. The speeches will be transmitted over a land line to Cairo, whence they will be wirelessed to London. From here they will be wirelessed to Sydney, and thence to Wellington, arriving approximately at 11 p.m.

Tho Anzac Memorial at Port Said was designed by the lato Charles W. Gilbert and completed by the late Sir Bertram Mackennal. It consists of a group of bronze statuary 14ft, high, the figures shown being an Australian trooper on a rearing charger and a New Zealand in tho act of dismounting. The memorial has been erected to the Anzac Mounted Division, tho Imperial Camel Corps and the Australian Flying Corps. Mr. W. M. Hughes, a former Prime Minister of Austnalia, has accepted the invitation of the Commonwealth Government to unveil the memorial.

Field-Marshal Lord Allenby, Sir Granville Ryrie (Australian High Commissioner), Sir Thomas Wilford (New Zealand High Commissioner), Mr. T. Trumble (Official Secretary to Australia House), and Sir Donald Cameron, of Brisbane, inspected the group at the foundry at Thames Ditton in July and all expressed high approval of it.