ANZAC DAY

Waikato Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 2614, 24 April 1926, Page 4

ANZAC DAY

MEMORIAL SERVICE TO-MORROW NO SPECIAL HOLIDAY. Local observance of Anzac Day will take the form of a big combined memorial service at the Town , Hall to-mor-row afternoon at 2 o’clock. Doubtless there will be a large attendance at this public service. Special memorial services will also be held at all the churches on Sunday morning. At the School. It had beenc arranged to hold an observance of Anzac Day at the Cambridge District High School yesterday afternoon, addresses to be delivered by Rev. Mortimer-. Tones and the Mayor to the assembled children. Owing to a shower of rain, however, it was found impossible to muster the children as intended. Consequently the speakers had to visit the .various class-rooms and speak to the children there. Rev. Mortimer-Jones explained to the children the meaning of the word “Anzac.” He also referred specially to tlie wording on the local war memorial, which Lord Jellicoe had declared was one of the finest short sentences on any war memorial: “Remembering these dead, let the living be humble.” The Vicar spoke of the horrors of‘the Great War, and asked the children to bo thankful that Britain had won the war, and to be loyal, proud of their country, and yet humble. The Mayor (Mr T. F. Richards) said the children should be proud to belong to the great British nation. He reminded them of how many Cambridge boys, some of whom had once occupied tlieir very seats, had gone out to fight for tlieir country and a righteous cause. The Mayor gave a graphic description of the memorable landing at Gillipoli on Anzac Day, ijiml urged tlie boys and girls to remember the great sacrifice made in order to bring peace and happiness to us, and to save us from the German yoke. The “Last Post” was sounded bv Mr C. Boyce, and the impressive little ceremony concluded by the singing of “God Rave the King.” No Holiday on Monday. Doubt has-been expressed by local business-people as to whether a special holiday is to be observed as the anniversary this year falls on Sunday. The Act provides for the observance of Anzac Day on April 25th irrespective of the day of the week on which such anniversary falls. Therefore the business people will not be required to observe any special holiday. THE KING’S MESSAGE. AUCKLAND, this day. His Excellency the Governor-Gen-eral (Sir Charles Fergusson) has been commanded by His Majesty the King to communicate to the people of New Zealand on the occasion of Anzac Day the following message:— “On this day of remembrance and thanksgiving the thoughts of the Queen and myself a re. with the people of New Zealand in their commemoration of the ' glorious dead. ”