NEW ROLL OF HONOUR
| RECORD FOR THE MUSEUM CEREMONY TO-MORROW Valuable additions to the Hall of Memories at the Auckland War Memorial Museum will be made tomorrow afternoon, when a vellum roll of honour, and two bronze caskets to contain it, will bo handed over by Colonel T. H. Dawson, on behalf of the Hall of Memories Committee, to the president of the museum council, Mr. C. 11. Ford. The vellum roll of honour contains the names of those from the Auckland Provinco who fell in the Great War, as inscribed in marble in the Hall of Memories, and particulars of the regimental number, rank, unit, honours and next-of-kin of the fallen. The roll is in two leather-bound volumes with vellum leaves. Part of the cast design round the edges of the caskets comprises conventionalised plant forms combining European and Maori symbolism. The caskets have been set in niches at eacli side of the Court of Honour, and may be inspected by the public through the glass tops to the caskets. The ceremony will be broadcast to other parts of the museum by loudspeakers. The committee requests returned soldiers attending the ceremony to wear medals.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23381, 24 June 1939, Page 14
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195NEW ROLL OF HONOUR New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23381, 24 June 1939, Page 14
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