ANZAC DAY.
To the Editor. Sir, —Most people will agree with the remarks of the Governor-General to the Auckland returned soldiers when he'said: “We are a little inclined to strike a too mournful note. We should try to begin to put the sadness of it all out of our minds and dwell a little more on the glory of the day. . . . The note should be more cheerful than mournful.”
It appears from the arrangements published this week in your paper that We are to have the usual morbid programme, with draped gun carriage, wreaths, firing party, “Dead March” in Saul and Chopin’s “Funeral March.” The service here is so trying and realistic that many relatives of fallen men dare not attend.
It is to be hoped that the Southland Returned Soldiers Association will accept the Governor’s advice and leave behind th* gun carriage, and the rilles, and will arrange for music more in keeping with GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE.
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Southland Times, Issue 20665, 22 April 1929, Page 3
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157ANZAC DAY. Southland Times, Issue 20665, 22 April 1929, Page 3
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