The Anzacs

War. A short word and one which can conjure up a variety of mean-ings. For the youngster with a toy gun it is glorious, with comrades tailing over "dead" time and again,. For the wives, mothers and sweethearts, it means separation from their loved ones. And for the servicemen? Vivid pictures of privation, suffering, sorrow, anxiety, fear and mutilation. For them the word war is an ugly one. But each year in New Zealand, on April 25, the wars in which New Zealand men have fought and died, are recalled. 0n this day, Anzac Day, New Zealand mourns its fallen. In Nelson, as in other parts of the country the men who fell in the Boer War, two world wars and the later campaigns in Korea and Malaya, were remembered.

To the slow beat of the drums, wreaths are laid at the memorial on Church Hill

Gallipoli veterans, the first men of Anzac

Poppy day in Nelson found returned servicewomen doing good trade in Bridge Street: from left Miss M. C. Hilson, Jim White, Mesdames J. Cooper, H. Shakes, Miss C. M. Donohue, Miss B. P. Thomas and Mrs Ray Craighead.