Anzac Day At Wau
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From Our Own Correspondent WAU, April 26.
IT was fitting that Anzac Day, 1940, should have borne a significance in keeping with the present state of the nation, and that uniformed troops should have been a prominent feature in the march to the cemetery and the service of remembrance. A guard of 24 N.C.O.’s and men, under the command of Lieut. A. J. Clarke, very creditably carried out its duties, which included the difficult funeral exercises. All the personnel of this guard was taken from the younger volunteers, who have not seen service. As many others as could get to parade, marched under the command of Major C. Duchatel, M.C. A detachment numbering 48 ex service men marched under Lt. Col. W.
Davis. At the cemetery, where a very large gathering of the community was present. Major E. B. Ayris delivered an address.
MR. A. RUTLEDGE, who resigned from the position of secretary of W. R. Car penter and Co. (Fiji), Ltd., formerly Brown and Joske, Ltd., with which firm he served for 12 years, returned to Aus tralia from Suva by the April mail-boat.
Prior to his departure from Fiji, he was presented with a tortoiseshell desk set by Mr. Alport Barker (a director of W.
R. Carpenter and Co.) on behalf of Suva business men.