Anzac Day At Honiara, Bsi

rIS year, for the first time, Anzac Day was celebrated in Honiara, BSIP.

A cenotaph, simply constructed out of white-painted plywood, was erected near the Guadalcanal Club. It was in the form of a four-sided column, set on a base on which were inscribed the names of campaigns in which Australians and New Zealanders have taken part.

The cenotaph was floodlit on the night of April 24. A very successful dinner for returned Australian and New Zealand ex servicemen and women was also held on that evening. On Anzac Day, a Dawn Service was held at 6 a.m. and a public Memorial Service at 11 a.m,. at the Cenotaph.

Four Solomon Islanders, members of the Armed Constabulary, with arms re versed, stood guard at the Cenotaph dur ing the Memorial Service. A detachment of American troops (from the United States Army Survey Unit of Guadalcanal) on one side of the Cenotaph, faced a large detachment of the Protectorate’s Armed Constabulary on the other side.

Australian and New Zealand ex-service men fell in behind the American detach ment, and the Honiara public assembled on the third side of the square.

At the beginning of the impressive little service, a police constable sounded the Last Post, and wreaths of vivid bougain villea and hibiscus were laid on the Cenotaph.

Mr. R. N. Sanders, Veterinary Officer in Fiji, has been transferred to a similar post in Uganda and .expects to leave early next month to take up his new position.