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Anzac Day; third anniversary. Town Hall, Auckland, 25th April 1918. Programme, smoke co...
Date: 1918
From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to ANZAC events in New Zealand and overseas, as anniversaries of the landing at Anzac Cove]
By: Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd
Reference: Eph-B-ANZAC-1918-01
Description: Programme front cover includes the crest of the Returned Soldiers' Association, quotations from poems by Robert Burns and Laurence Housman, and an illustration of a soldier lying on his front in a field. The back cover remembers "New Zealand's heroic troops who took part in the Landing on Turkish soil at Gallipoli on the 25th of April 1915" and gives a quotation from a speech by the Dean of Westminster on the Anzacs. The inside spread has the words "Maoriland's welcome to her soldier boys, and the programme of the smoke concert with performers including Maughan Barnett (city organist), J H Gunson (Auckland mayor), Ernest Drake (songs), Mr Adams (xylophone solos), an address by Rt Rev Bishop Cleary, J Wallace Atkinson (songs), toasts by W B Leyland and W A Beddoe. The whole programme is covered inside and out with autographs in pencil. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress and holographs on folded programme, 242 x 100 mm.