IN MEMORY OF FALLEN

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 641, 18 April 1929, Page 11

IN MEMORY OF FALLEN

ANZAC ANNIVERSARY MANY SERVICES TO BE HELD On Thursday, April 25, the 14th anniversary of the landing of the New Zealand forces on Gallipoli, services will be held all over the Dominion to do honour to the memory of those New Zealand soldiers who gave their lives in their country’s cause. A commemorative service will be held in the Town Hall, Auckland, at 11 o’clock, on Anzac Day, and the service will be conducted by the Mayor, Mr. George Baildon (presiding). Archbishop Averill, Major Arthur Mitchell, chaplain to the forces, and the Rev. G. T. Robson, chaplain to the forces. Doors will be open at 10.15 a.m. for admission of next-of-kin, who may obtain tickets from the secretary of the Returned Soldiers’ Association. To prevent unauthorised persons obtaining tickets, applicants are asked to submit definite proof that they are the next-of-kin of deceased soldiers. Tickets are obtainable now. The service will be broadcast by means of loud speakers for the benefit of those who cannot obtain admission. A parade will take place from the Queen’s Wharf to the Town Hall. Citizens may deposit floral tributes at the base of the Cenotaph in front of the Town Hall, and such tributes will be taken to the Soldiers’ Memorial at Waikumete, where a service, presided over by the Mayor, will be held. An address will be given by the Rev. Angus Macdonald, 0.8. E., former chaplain to the forces. A service will also be held at the Town Hall at 3 p.m. for scholars attending the various secondary schools in Auckland and district. LieutenantColonel T. H. Dawson, C.M.G., C.8.E., president of the Auckland Returned Soldiers’ Association, will preside, and addresses will be given by the Rev. Dr. PI. Ranston, Archdeacon Plawkins, the Rev. John Hiddlestone and the Rev. W. Lawson March. DEVONPORT OBSERVANCE Anzac Day at Devonport will be celebrated much the same as last year. The Rev. Lawson Marsh has offered to give a lantern slide illustrated lecture on the soldiers’ cemeteries. He has a number of pictures of these last resting places of the men from New Zealand. In the morning a Girl Guide and Scout rally will be held at the War Memorial in Marine Square. At

its meeting last night the Devonport Borough Council decided to buy a locally-made wreath to place on the cenotaph instead of buying one from the Returned Soldiers’ Association: but will make a donation of two guineas to the association’s funds. The usual Poppy Day collection will be taken up on Friday, and it is expected to realise £IOO, as against £6O last year.