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TUSEDAY, 25 APRIL
Warkworth
The Warkworth & Districts RSA will hold a dawn service at 6am, starting at the band rotunda in Church Hill and finishing at the RSA in Neville Street. A full breakfast will be served from 7.30am onwards, $14pp. The Civic Service will start at 10.30am where there will be an opportunity for members of the public to lay wreaths and poppies. The morning will conclude with morning tea at the RSA from 11.45am onwards. Gold coin donation appreciated.
Matakana
The Matakana War Memorial Anzac Day service will start at 10am and finish at 10.30am. The Master of Ceremonies will be Peter Burney.
Leigh
The Leigh Anzac Day service will begin with a parade fall-in in Harbour View Road at 10.45am. The parade will then make its way to the Leigh Cemetery where the service will start at 11am. At the conclusion of the ceremony, refreshments will be served at the Leigh Bowling Club. All welcome.
Wellsford
Wellsford will mark Anzac Day with a dawn parade. Anyone planning to march in the parade is asked to assemble at 5.45am outside the Wrightson Building. The short march to the memorial gates of the Wellsford Library, on Port Albert Road, will start at 6am.
Matakohe
Anzac Day will be commemorated as usual this year at the Matakohe Memorial Hall and adjacent Kauri Museum.
The service will start at 10.30am with a fall-in at the hall, wreaths will be laid at the World War I monument and at the hall. A service will then be held in the Volunteers Hall. Sir Lockwood Smith will be the guest speaker at the ceremony. He will speak about the new museum being built in France at Le Quesnoy. The New Zealand Museum and Visitor Centre in Le Quesnoy includes a visitor experience created by Wētā Workshop. It will tell the unique story of the liberation of this French town by New Zealand soldiers and honour all New Zealanders who fought in Europe in WWI. All are welcome.
Hakaru
The service organised by the Hakaru and Districts Memorial RSA will start with an assembly at 10am, followed by the march at 10.30am. The programme will include wreath laying, a roll of honour call and speeches. Refreshments will be served at the conclusion.
Kawau Island
There will be a less formal, but no less heartfelt, ceremony on Kawau Island this year following the closure of the Bon Accord Bar & Bistro, at the Kawau Boating Club, last month. The service will start at midday with Pip Tabron as Master of Ceremonies. Hospitality at the club will not be possible, so attendees are asked to consider a BYO picnic. There will also be some improvisation with the flag, as the flagpole blew down in the January storms and cyclone. Everyone welcome.
