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Tuesday 22 April 2014
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Trafalgar Park to be graveyard More than 400 white crosses will fill the embankment of Trafalgar Park for the centenary Anzac Day service, making it a giant graveyard for a day. This Friday is Anzac Day and it will be held as normal at Anzac Park in central Nelson, but next year will be the 100th anniversary of the day soldiers from New Zealand and Australia stormed the Turkish coastal town of Gallipoli and the Nelson Returned
Serviceman Association is planning a huge day. Nelson RSA president Barry Pont says they are working with Nelson City Council to host a special service at Trafalgar Park, including white crosses to mark each of the 420 Nelsonians who died in the First World War. Barry says the dawn service is a special occasion each year, but next year will be something extra special and there will be
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andrew@nelsonweekly.co.nz a push for more than 6000 Nelsonians to come along. “Last year we had about 3000 people at our dawn service. We’re hoping for more than that this year as it’s 100 years since the start of the war. But next year will
be a really big one and we’re after a huge crowd.” Barry says the Turkish battle was the “birth of a nation” for New Zealand and will be a massive occasion in Nelson and throughout the country. This Friday’s dawn service starts at 6.30am at Anzac Park when returned servicemen and women will march from Miller’s Acre to Anzac Park. More information on page 8.
Rain can’t ruin fair
Gayle and Peter Rigg made the most of the wet weather at the Mapua Easter Fair by selling raincoats to event-goers. Photo: Phillip Rollo.
The Mapua Easter Fair is often regarded as one of the biggest one-day events in Nelson, with thousands of people visiting, even some from outside the region. But with wet weather still lingering on Sunday morning, the number of event-goers was well down this year, with some stall-holders questioning whether it should have been moved to Easter Monday – that was until
the sun finally broke through in the afternoon to attract hundreds more people. The fair raises money for the local school and playcentre, and there was still plenty of support from raincoat-wearing event-goers armed with umbrellas in morning, before a larger crowd showed up in the afternoon, adding to the takings. An overall tally of how much was raised was yet to be confirmed.
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