Wairarapa Anzac services

LEST WE FORGET: Anzac Day parade in Featherston, 2013.PHOTO/ANDREW BONALLACK

Anzac Day Parades and Service Times, Friday, April 25

WOODVILLE

A dawn parade will start from Fountaine Sq at 6.30am. An RSA service at the Servicemen's Cemetery at 9am and a Civic Service at the Cenotaph at 10am.

PONGAROA

A service at the Cenotaph in Pongaroa will start at 11.45am.

Those wishing to join RSA members in the March to the Cenotaph are requested to assemble at the Pongaroa Hotel by 11.30am.

HAMUA

A service at the Hamua Hall on SH2, north of Eketahuna, will start at 9am.

PAHIATUA

5.35am, dawn parade assembles outside Tararua Club rooms, 15 Tararua Street, and marches off to the Cenotaph at 5.45am to reach the memorial at 6am. Speeches, prayer and wreath laying will be done, then a firing party and Last Post and reveille is played. After the parade has marched back to the clubrooms, a small tea break is had before assembly for a walk down the road to the cemetery where a short service is held for the fallen.

EKETAHUNA

10am, Eketahuna Community Hall, Haswell St. Veterans will march to the War Memorial.

KAIPARORO

2pm, Anzac Memorial Bridge, SH2, 10km south of Eketahuna at Kaiparoro. A service to commemorate the men and women who are immortalised on the bridge. The theme of the service will be "Honour and Recognition of Returned Service Men and Women in the District Past Present and Future".

TINUI

Anzac service starts at 10.30am outside the Tinui War Memorial Hall, finishing at around 11.30am.

Parking will be in Tinui village and sign-posted.

Available in the school playground, Ricks' paddock opposite the school, roadsides in Manawa Road and Charles Street, beside the Hall (school side only).

Track to the cross will be open to the public after the service. All people to be on track no later than 1pm. The hill-side track is about 3km uphill. Allow 50-60 mins to walk to the cross. There is likely to be mud so appropriate footwear and clothing is essential.

MASTERTON

5.45am - The dawn parade will assemble at the War Memorial Hall where a wreath will be laid, then march to the Cenotaph at Queen Elizabeth Park on Dixon St.

5.50am - Service commences at Cenotaph, including wreath laying. At the conclusion, returned and services march back to the Services and Citizens Club.

CARTERTON

10.30am - Assemble at the Carterton District Council Offices located in Holloway Street.

10.45am - Parade forms up outside the council offices.

11am - March to the Cenotaph via High Street for wreath-laying ceremony.

11.30am - March via High Street to the Carterton Events Centre, Holloway Street for formal proceedings, guest speakers and combined church service.

MARTINBOROUGH

Dawn parade will form up at 5.45am outside Pain and Kershaws on Jellicoe St and move off to the Square at 5.55am for the service and laying of the wreaths.

GREYTOWN

The Citizens Anzac Day Service will be at the War Memorial, Kuratawhiti St, starting at 10am with laying of the wreaths.

Those persons wishing to lay personal wreaths are invited to contact the Parade Marshal, Lt. Col. Bryce Gurney, prior to the start of the ceremony.

The parade will proceed to the South Wairarapa Workingmen's Club for a Civic Service, starting at 10.30am.

FEATHERSTON

A parade starts at 9am at Clifford Square, which will proceed to the War Memorial for the laying of the wreaths, and then to Anzac Hall for the commemorative service.

Residents and visitors are invited to attend the Anzac Day Parade and Service in Featherston.

LAKE FERRY

The parade will fall in at Flagstaff at 10.30am (or in adverse weather conditions the Lake Ferry Hotel) for the laying of wreaths and the service.