Regiment's Colours Laid up in Cathedral

With flags flying, bands playing, drums beating and bayonets fixed, 400 members of Canterbury-Nelson-Marlborough-West Coast Battalion, of the R.N.Z.I.R., marched through Nelson city on November 29 on the way to laying up the colours of the old Nelson-Marl-borough-West Coast Regiment in the Nelson Cathedral. Only a short time before, the Mayor had bestowed upon the battalion the freedom of the city. The ceremony, like the parade of the battalion at Trafalgar Park, was carried out with precision and great dignity. At the park, a crowd of about 1200 watched a pageant of uniforms, historically connected with the battalion, and a demonstration of a field exercise at platoon strength.

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Battalion Commanding Officer, Lt Col E. G. Latter, watches Archdeacon Jameson laying one of the colours on the altar.

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The colour party slow march the colours up the Church Steps.