Services At Taradale.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 71, 26 April 1929, Page 8

Services At Taradale.

Besidents of Taradale commemoi ated Anzac hy a service around the town's inipressive war memorial- in the morning, which despite the unpleasant weather ruling, was well attended. The chairman of ihe Taradale Town Board, Mr Jt. i). Kelly, presided and astirring address was delivered hy Mr W. F. Barnard, M.P. At n service lield in tlie evcning, the Bev. 10. A. McCuteheon, presided. assisted hy the ltevs. J. H. Bnprecht and F. I,. Frost. In the course of his address, tho Rev. Frost said : — "The Governor-General counsellcd us to strike a more cheerful liote for our Anzac Dav oommemorntions. Ti' vou are to he eheered hv mv message it will he with tlie assuranee that tlie boys are worthy of the most sacred thoughts vou have spared tliem to-day and hy tiie peace and strength that will come and abide witliin vou as you resolvc to carrv on and finish the taslc which tliey began and were unahle to coniplete. "This is a day of remembrance. It is not only the glorious doeds of our men that we rememher. Tlie wonder of the war iriis the composition of its arniies. At the chnllenge of honour and dutv. 'from hank and sliop, from hench and niill, from the schools, from tho tnil of tho plough tliey liurried awav at tho cnll of the frny ; tliey could not linger a dav.' "Our c-ivilin.ii arniies established a new fighting tradition — a tradition tliat was maintained hy tliem on everv hattlefield until the last day of the war. To-day we recalled tliem to our remembrance. I am imjiressed with the thought that a new generation has arisen since 1914-18 — a generation to wliom the Great War is not much more than a rec-ord in the history books. "Another factor to he considered is the loss of wages to workers who can ill afford it. To those of us who livecl through those dark days and had full knowledge of their cost, the memory of our conirades will he ever green, hut I suggest that all the purposes of this publie commemoration could be served hy holding comhined services on the Sunday nearest to Anzac Day and a twn-niinutes' silence on Anzac Day itself. "After all. it is not the time, hut the manner o,f our eommemoration that matters. AVhelher tliis suggestion finds favour or not, oue thing is certain, their memory nmst not, cannot fade. We who knew them and hailed tliem as conirades in arms and those who have grown up to know tliem by the record of hraverv and sacrifiee which is their enduring memorial, stand together anl share tlie sorrow and pride we have in those who fouglit and died. Tlieir name liveth ever more."