BIG PARADE

New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24302, 17 June 1942, Page 4

BIG PARADE

PLANS FOR TO-MORROW ALL FORCES IN DISTRICT REVIEW BY ADMIRAL The most comprehensive parade of the fighting services which Auckland has seen will be held through the city tomorrow. It will include representative details from all the forces now in the Northern Military District. Some of the equipment to be used has not been on public display before. The parade will be reviewed by Vice-Admiral Robert L. Ghormley, U.S.N., commanding tho South Pacific area, and by Major-General P. H. Bell, D.5.0., commandant of the district. It was originally intended that the display should be held last week for the celebration of United Nations Day. While it was postponed until tomorrow, its purpose is still to mark tho city's consciousness of the ties cementing the Allied countries. The Mayor, Mr. J. A. C. Allum, who will also be at the saluting base at the Town Hall, has invited citizens and business houses to make a display of flags and firms to release their empoyees between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Two Columns The parade will include two columns, one dismounted and the other mounted, or mechanised, and a number of bands, some of which have not been heard before in the city. The numerous units will assemble in and near the Domain and will move individually to Upper Queen Street in time for the head of the first, which will be the dismounted column, to pass the starting point outside the Y.W.C.A. at 11.30 a.m. There will then be a gap between this and the mounted column, which will be moving more quickly. This column is due to pass the starting point at noon, The route for the dismounted column will be Upper Queen Street, Queen Street, Customs Street, Beach Road, and Ronavne Street. For the mounted column the route will be down Queen Street and then Quay Street, Waterfront Road, Gladstone Road and St. Stephen's Avenue.

Forces Included Included 111 the dismounted column will be naval detachments, _ Army infantry and composite battalions, a Home 'Guard battalion, Air Force detachment, including members of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, and Women's War Service Auxiliary. Air Force machines will fly overhead during the parade. The mounted column will give the public an opportunity of seeing some of the most modern war equipment in New Zealand. The scale on which this will be shown has had no precedent in the * Tri.There will be light armoured fighting vehicle regiment troops in Beaverettes and Br en-carriers, a battalion of a tank brigade, a mechanised detachment, field artillery, heavy and light antiaircraft batteries, a searchlight battery, and other completely equipped defence units. The 1942 Patriotic Appeal Committee will make a street collection during the parade. The collectors, who are business girls, will be allowed'inside the cordon.

BRITISH IN CRETE APPEAL BY GERMANS One of the pamphlets dropped by the Germans to British and Anzac soldiers hiding ip the mountains of Crete has been received by Mrs. H. Duncan, of 41 Mount Hobson Road, Remuera, from her son, Private J. A. Duncan, now serving in the Middle East. He was captured and interned for some time in a German prison camp at Crete. With some other soldiers he escaped and it was while they were taking refuge in the mountains that the pamphlets were dropped. The text reads: "Soldiers of the Royal British Army, Navy and Air Force. There are many of you still hiding in the mountains, valleys and villages. l You have to present yourself at once to the German troops. Every opposition will be completely useless. Every attempt to flee will be in vain. The coming winter will force you to leave the mountains. Only soldiers who present themselves at once will be sure of an honourable and soldierlike captivity of war. On the contrary, any one who is met in civil clothes will be treated as a spy." It is signed, "The Commander of Kreta."

TOWN PLANNING BRITAIN AFTER THE WAR What is known as the "green belt,'' where the movements for town-plan-ning and rural preservation meet, is more than the dream of those who are giving thought to the reconstruction of English towns after the war. Some controlling legislation is to be introduced. In a memorandum submitted by the Town Planning Institute to the committee appointed by the Government, under the chairmanship of Lord Justice Scott, to consider planning in relation to agriculture and rural life, the whole matter has been summarised. The expansion of towns should be limited by the reservation of green belts, states the document. The idea is to stop the "policy of sprawl," to mark the change from town to country, to provide recreational space for townspeople, and at the same time to preserve a surrounding area for agricultural industry free from "casual intrusion of urban overspill." It is proposed that the green belt should he connected with the heart of the town by green wedges on which most of the playing areas would be accommodated. By sudi a system, which would involve the purchase of a good deal of farm land by local authorities, it is hoped to avoid mistakes of the past.