ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATED
TROOPS FOR AFRICA UNVEILTN.C OF TABLET (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The thirty-seventh anniversary of the departure of the first- New Zealand eontingem for South Africa in 1899 was marked by a ceremony at St. Mary’s Church, karori, yesterday, when Viscountess Elibank unveiled a memorial tablet to the officers and men of the first contingent who died on service in South Africa and the Great War. The Mayor. Mr. T. U. A. Hislop, handed over to the First New Zealand Mounted Rifles Association, colours given bv Wellington citizens to the first, contingent on Trafalgar Day. 1899. Lady- EJibnnk is a sister of MajorGeneral Madoi'ks. the surviving senior officer of the contingent and president of the Mounted Rifles Association. 3 iseouut Ejibanj; also attended the crvemoiiy and read the lesson.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19152, 22 October 1936, Page 3
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