BIG PARADE IN CHRISTCHURCH
Fighting Services And Auxiliaries
(P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, April 27. More than 9000 paraded through crowded Christchurch streets yesterday in the mos t impressive military and civic procession held here for many years. Units of mounted and mechanized men of the military forces, air trainees from Wigram and Harewood, the Home Guard, nursing and ambulance personnel and uniformed members of the women’s war auxiliaries and every branch of the Emergency Precautions Service were included in the parade, which took an hour and a-half to pass the saluting base. The parade was marked by the first public appearance in the South Island of the new tanks made in New Zealand from converted bulldozers and it gave the public a vivid impression of the extent of the rapid mechanization of the army. The salute was taken by Brigadier O. H. Mead, and with him on the saluting base were the Minister of National Service, the Hon. R. Semple, and the Minister - of Supply, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan. The crowd which attended was estimated at about 60,000.
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Southland Times, Issue 24420, 28 April 1941, Page 4
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