ANZAC DAY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16628, 23 April 1928, Page 2

ANZAC DAY

GISBORNE'S OBSERVANCE WEDNESDAY'S MEMORIAL SERVICE Due observance of New Zealand's most important national anniversary will be made on Wednesday, April 25, when throughout the Dominion services will bo held to commemorate the part taken by the. N.Z.E.F. in. the landing at Galhpoli, and the subsequent participation of the, Dominion's forces in the war on different fronts. Gisborne's observance will take the same farm as in previous years, a. memorial service having been arranged for Wednesday morning at tho War Memorial on the Kaiti Esplanade, tho service to be preceded by a parade of returned soldiers, Sojith African veterans, territorials, cadets and other organisations. The principal address at the service will, bo delivered by the Rev. W. S. G. Cameron, of Te Karaka, who happens to be the only member of the local clergy with overseas service on his record. Tho other members of the clergy will assist in the memorial observance. A feature of the service will be the placing of wreaths on the monument, a ceremony which will be carried out first by tho chairmen of the local bodies and organisations, and later by the members of the general public. Special arrangements are being made to keep the immediate vicinity of tho monument, clear, in order that the ceremony may proceed without delay and with the dignity ox the occasion. In particular, parents are requested to keep th'eir children back from the steps of the monument, on which are to be laid the floral offerings. For the parade, which will precede the service at the m ormmcn t> there will bo a fall-in lit the Garrison Hall of territorials, cadets, and Other, organisations, with the exception of the South African veterans, who will meet in the first place 'at tho Sievwright Memorial in Peel street, and march in proper order to the Garrison Hall. Markers will be called for shortly before 9.30 a.m., and the fall-in will sound at that hour. A space of 10 minutes being allowed for tho preliminaries, the pa,rado will move off at 9.40, marching via Peel street and Gladstone road to the Kaiti Esplanade. By 10 o'clock the troops land other units would be drawil up about the monument,' and the memorial service will then proceed. All organisations which jiroposo to be represented in the parade should advise the marshal, Captain W. R. Burgo, at tho Defence Department, in order that arrangements can be made for their inclusion. . , In the country centras near Gisborne there will be small memorial observances, and at To Karaka in the afternoon a larger gathering is likely to take place, at. the township's war memorial. For this ceremony, Mr. G. E. Dart'on has been invited by the Waikohu Returned Soldiers' Association to make the principal address. • Another afternoon function in connection with the Anzac' Day anniversary, will be, the service at the Soldiers' Plot at the-Taruhenv cemetery, arranged by the Women's National Reserve. At this service Canon Packe will preside.. ■ ■