FORTROSE

Southland Times, Issue 24115, 2 May 1940, Page 9

FORTROSE

ANZAC_SERVICE There was a good attendance at the Anzac Day service held in the Fortrose public hall. Mr F. Chisholm presided and the Rev. J. M. Lockhead conducted the prayers. After the service, wreaths were laid on the war memorial in the school grounds. “Last Post” was sounded by Mr W. T. Bandy. In opening his address, Mr J. M. Mackintosh, of Invercargill, referred to the sacrifices that had been made in the Great War of 1914-18. There was scarcely a country throughout the world that had not, within living memory, echoed to the tramp of armed men, and there was scarcely a year that had not seen warfare in some part of the world. Today, in China and throughout the countries of Central Europe, war in all its hideousness and horror was raging. Germany taught national hatred in her schools, the speaker continued, and the youth of the nation had been taught to put their faith in brutality and force. The Nazi regime realized early the importance of harnessing the youth of their country to their policy of aggressive expansionism. Throughout the British Empire, ideals of peace had been taught in the schools, and as a result of this teaching, the Empire had become a

great nation, a bulwark against aggression, a beacon in a troubled world and the bearer of the torch of peace and goodwill to the nations of the world.