ANZAC DAY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 85, 9 April 1936, Page 6

ANZAC DAY

WANGANUI OBSERVANCES rr.xxs for memorial service. Anzae Dav is to be fittingly celebrated in Wanganui this year, plans for the cjlc service on Cook’s Gardens having been set in motion at a meeting held, in the Afayor’s room yesterday mori.ing. The Mayor (Air. W. j. Kogers) presided and there were presen?: Alessrs. W. H. Cannan and F. G. Sm’C on, represent’ng the Wanganui Returned Soldiers’ Association; Rev. J. I : e son, deputising for the president "f .'he Wanganui Ministers’ Assocla:ion (lastor l-'reiwell) and Rev. G. AL G i.ljek, secretary to the Alinisters’ As-sm.-ation, Lieutenant-Colonel W. S. .'lcC'-orie, officer commanding the First Batt&licr. Wellington West Coast Regiment, and Captain J, AV. Barry, Adit was decided that the service take the form of that observed in j ormer years, Cook’s Gardens being the venue. Grouped on the dais will be the Mayor and Afayoress, City Councillors • and their wives, the clergy, returned soldiers' representatives, representative citizens, the military units, members Parliament, representatives of local bodies, and representatives of the Native race. The parade will comprise returned soldiers, military units and college units, together with bands. One of the primary school bands will be called upon for duty as buglers to sound ‘‘The Last Post” and “Reveille.” As yet, the speaker for the day has not been finalised, but it is intended that the form of service will follow much tho same sequence as in the past, commencing at 2.30 p.m. The Alayor will preside in the initial stages, and, following the National Anthem, he will deliver a short introductory address and then hand the conduct of the service over to the Alinisters’ Association, under the leadership of Pastor G. Fretwell, the president. The programme mapped out will be as follows; National Anthem; introductory remarks by the Mayor; hymn, “0 God Our Help in Ages Past”; reading of Scripture; Kipling’s Recessional; palm; prayer; hymn, “Fight the Good Fight”; address by ihe speaker (to be arranged); concluding hymn, “Abide With Aie’j “Last Post”; “Reveille.” The Rev. Paterson has arranged that St. Paul’s Hall may be used as a rest room for aged people all through the day and for others who so desire to make use of it. The hall will also be a repository for wreaths from citizens. Those emblems of remembrance will be collected later, some of them carried in the procession, and all of them deposited on the graves of soldiers in the city cemeteries. The municipality, through the Mayor, will deposit a wreath on the citizens’ AVar Afemorial on Queen’s Park and another on the Maori AVar Memorial in Moutoa Gardens. Both will bear suitable in* • scriptions conveying the sentiments of i the populace in keeping with the sig- ' nificance of the day. Provision will be made to hold the service indoors if the weather should prove inclement on the day. A committee. consisting of the Mayor, the town clerk, the assistant town clerk, Captain Barry, and Pastor Fretwell has been set up to determine the position before one o’clock, and if the weather is unsuitable for an outdoor service the " firebell in Cook’s Gardens will be rung • at that hour. In addition to that the ? Wellington Broadcasting station 2YA will be asked to co-operate, and a • broadcast announcement made of alj terafion in the day’s plans. Maori Memorial Service. It is intended to hold a service at the Maori AVar Memorial in Moutoa e Gardens on the morning of Anzac Day in much the same form as in previous years.