Taupo Anzac services to honor fallen Anzacs
Fallen servicemen and women will be remembered in dawn and civic services around Taupo District on Anzac Day, Thursday 25 April. The main ceremony will be held at the cenotaph on Tongariro Domain in Taupo at dawn.
The dawn service will be held at 6.00am on Anzac Day at the cenotaph outside the Great Lake Centre. Later in the morning, at 10.30am, a civic service and parade will be held. Mayor Rick Cooper is scheduled to take part in the service and to make a short speech. All ex-servicemen and women as well as other interested parties can take part in the parade. Participants assemble outside the Taupo Bowling Club on Lake Terrace at 10.15am, ready to march to the cenotaph outside the Great Lake Centre.
In Mangakino, a civic service will be held at 10.30am at the RSA Cemetery on Lake Road. That will be followed at 11.00am by a service in the grounds of the Mangakino District Services and Citizens Club on Wairenga Road.
In the southern settlements a dawn service will be held at Waihi Marae at 6.00am. It will be followed later by a parade at the Turangi Services Cemetery on Aonini Road, Turangi at 10.00am. At 10.50am there will be a march from Turangi town centre to Tokaanu-Turangi and Districts Memorial RSA clubrooms, Katopu Place, Turangi, where a civic service will be held.
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