OBSERVANCE IN CITY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26614, 10 November 1947, Page 4

OBSERVANCE IN CITY

WREATHS LAID ON CENOTAPH The memory of the fallen in two world wars was honoured at a short, but impressive, service at the Cenotaph in Dunedin yesterday—Remembrance Day. After the sounding of the Last Post, wreaths were laid by the Mayor, Mr Cameron, the president of the Dunedin Returned Services’ Association, Mr M. S. Myers, and the president of the Imperial Ex-services Association, Mr W. R. Watts. A silence of two minutes was observed at 11 a.m., and Captain C. L. Wright, of the Church Army, offered a prayer, after which the cavalry version of Reveille was sounded. There were only a few members of the public present and the parade of returned servicemen was small. , ~ . Special services were held by the various churches, the congregations of which observed the two-minute silence at 11 o’clock. Two wreaths—one in remembrance of men in the First World War and the other in remembrance of 2nd N.Z E.F tramway members—were placed by Dunedin tramwaymen on their memorial tablet at 11 a.m. Remembrance Day is held on the nearest Sunday to November 11, which was the Armistice Day of the First World War, and commemorates those who paid the supreme sacrifice in both wars.