CAPTIONS BY COURTNEY SOLE AND MAIA CARR HEKE. CAPTIONS WERE MADE WITH THE SUPPORT OF NZ ON AIR. WWW.ABLE.CO.NZ COPYRIGHT ABLE 2024 (KARANGA) (KARANGA CONTINUES) (WAIATA BEGINS) (SPEAKING TE REO MAORI) (WOMAN SPEAKS TE REO MAORI) COMING UP SHORTLY, WE WILL CROSS LIVE TO THE DAWN SERVICE AT THE AUCKLAND THE WAR MEMORIAL MUSEUM. AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE SERVICE, STAY WITH US AS WE EXPLORE SOME OF THE TAONGA HERE AT C COMPANY HOUSE AND HEAR STORIES FROM AROUND THE REGION. SIR APIRANA NGATA CALLED FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MAORI BATTALION, IN RETURN HE EXPECTED THE CROWN WOULD REGARD MAORI AS A COURT CITIZENS. 100 YEARS AGO TODAY, THE FOUNDATION STONE WAS LAID AT A HIGHLY REVERED CHURCH, ST MARYS AND TECHIE TECHIE, TIKITIKI* HE MANHANDLED TO ANTI-TANK GUNS ACROSS A RIVER, WHICH WERE VITAL SUPPORT WHICH HELPED SEND THE GERMANS INTO RETREAT. THERE WAS AWAY AT THAT BECAME THE UNOFFICIAL HYMN OF THE MAORI BATTALION. HERE IN TURANGA-NUI-A-KIWA, AS IS THROUGHOUT THE MOTU, VETERANS ARE BEGINING THEIR PROCESSION TO THE LOCAL CENOTAPH TO TAKE THEIR POSITIONS. VETERANS ARE MARCHING FROM RIGHT OUTSIDE HERE AT C COMPANY HOUSE AND MAKING THEIR WAY TO THE WAR MEMORIAL ACROSS THE RIVER. WE ACKNOWLEDGE NEW ZEALAND DEFENCE FORCE PERSONNEL WITH US TODAY, SERVING IN THE CAUSE OF PEACE AND SECURITY. ANZAC DAY WAS FIRST OBSERVED ON 25 APRIL 1916 TO MARKLEY AND AUGER ALL ANNIVERSARY OF LANDINGS AT GALLIPOLI. THE DEATHS OF NEW ZEALAND SOLDIERS AND THEIR FIRST MAJOR CAMPAIGN MEANT IT WAS A DAY OF PRIDE AND SORROW. IN 2024, NEW ZEALANDERS OF ALL AGES AND BACKGROUNDS CONTINUE TO EMBRACE ANZAC DAY AS OUR NATIONAL DAY OF COMMEMORATION TO RECOGNISE AND REMEMBER THOSE WHO HAVE SERVED OUR NATION. LET US REMEMBER THEIR DEEDS, THROUGHOUT OUR NATION'S HISTORY. 80 YEARS AGO THIS MONTH, THE SECOND NEW ZEALAND DIVISION WAS RESTING AND RECUPERATING IN ITALY. AFTER ONE OF ITS FIERCEST AND COSTLIEST BATTLES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR. THE BATTLE OF CASSINO. THIS CONCLUDED 28TH MAORI BATTALIONS HEROIC OPENING ATTACK ON CASINOS RAILWAY STATION. WE KNOW 150 OF THE BATTALION'S MEN WERE KILLED, WOUNDED, OR CAPTURED. 343 NEW ZEALANDERS WERE KILLED AT CASSINO. THE RETURNING VETERANS AND RELATIVES, THE SIGHT OF THESE GRAVES MARK WITH THE FIRM SIDE-BY-SIDE ROW ON ROW, HAS A PROFOUND IMPACT. LET US PAUSE TO REMEMBER THEM. (SILENCE) (SHELL PLAYS HAUNTING TUNE) NAU PIKI MAI... (KARANGA CONTINUES IN TE REO) NAU MAI RA, NAU MAI RA, PIKI MAI RA. (KARANGA CONTINUES) ...KARANGA MAI RA. THIS YEAR MARKS THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY IN THE NEW ZEALAND INVOLVEMENT IN EAST TIMOR. THE YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN ABOUT FENCE FORCES HAVE SERVED IN EAST TIMOR AND IN OTHER COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD, AND RIGHTFULLY CLAIM THE ANZAC MANTLE. 4000 DEFENCE FORCE PERSONNEL WOULD SERVE IN EAST TIMOR, AND ALSO RESULTING SADLY IN THE FIRST COMBAT DEATH SINCE THE DEAD MAN WAR. TODAY, THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF TIMOR LESTE. LET US REMEMBER THEM, AND ALL WHO HAVE SERVED OUR NATION. THE AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCE PERSONNEL MADE UP THE BULK OF THE FORCE, AND NEW ZEALAND WAS THE SECOND LARGEST CONTRIBUTING, DISPATCHING AN INFANTRY. I NOW CALL ON NGATI WHATUA TO OPEN THIS ANZAC SERVICE. (CALLS IN TE REO MAORI) (CONTINUES) TAIKI E. (SPEAKS TE REO MAORI) (SPEAKS TE REO MAORI) (SPEAKS TE REO MAORI) (SPEAKS TE REO MAORI) (SPEAKS TE REO MAORI) (SPEAKS TE REO MAORI) MY FELLOW KIWIS, THIS FOLLOWING SONG OF SUPPORT GIVEN TO US BY NGATI KAHUNGUNGU, I HOPE IS KNOWN BY ALL OF US. A SONG THAT ENCOURAGES US TO STAND TOGETHER ON THE SHOULDERS OF OUR FORBEARERS, TO STAND AS ONE. (SPEAKS TE REO MAORI) (SINGS IN TE REO MAORI) (ALL SING IN TE REO MAORI) # KIAPATAHI RA, # TATOU, TATOU E. # TATOU, TATOU E. TENA KOUTOU KATOA. PRAYERS WILL BE OFFERED BY CHAPLAIN DR LEON O'FLYNN, NEW ZEALAND ARMY. (SPEAKS TE REO MAORI) AMENE. LORD GOD, AS WE GATHER HERE IN THE DARKNESS OF NIGHT, WE ARE SILENT. WE ARE SILENT BEFORE YOU, BEFORE EACH OTHER, AND SILENT IN A WORLD FULL OF NOISE. WE REFLECT ON THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO WOKE TO THEIR FINAL DAY, WHO DRESSED AND PREPARED THEMSELVES FOR DUTY, A DUTY THAT COST THEM THEIR LIVES. WE MOURN THE UNREALISED POTENTIAL OF EACH INDIVIDUAL - THE GOAL IS NOT ACHIEVED BECAUSE OF SACRIFICE. WE REMEMBER NAMES, BATTLES, PLACES THAT BELONGED TO A TIME FAR REMOVED FROM TODAY. WE ALSO REMEMBER THE FAMILY, FRIEND AND COMRADE WHOSE NAMES HAVE BEEN ADDED IN RECENT YEARS TO MEMORIALS AROUND THE COUNTRY. WE STAND IN THE SILENCE OF NIGHT AND REMEMBER THOSE WHO FOUGHT, THOSE WHO RETURNED AND THE FAMILIES THAT STILL FEEL THE TRAUMA OF LOSS. HOWEVER, THEOLOGIAN THOMAS FULLER REMINDS US, IT IS ALWAYS DARKEST JUST BEFORE THE DAY DAWNETH. WE PRAY AS THE LIGHT BREAKS THIS MORNING WE CAN BE A PEOPLE OF HOPE, A PEOPLE OF PEACE, A PEOPLE THAT EMBRACE THE LIFE GIVEN US. MAYBE WE'D BE A PEOPLE OF LIGHT, DARKNESS. THOSE OF US IN UNIFORM REMEMBER OUR COMRADES SERVING IN FOREIGN LANDS THIS MORNING, SERVING OUR NATION. WE PRAY SAFETY BE UPON THEM. (SPEAKS TE REO MAORI) AMINE. REQUIEM FOR A SOLDIER WILL BE PLAYED BY VIOLINIST NICK JONES. (NICK JONES PLAYS 'REQUIEM FOR A SOLDIER') (NICK JONES PLAYS 'REQUIEM FOR A SOLDIER') (NICK JONES PLAYS 'REQUIEM FOR A SOLDIER') THE ANZAC DEDICATION WILL BE DELIVERED BY AIR VICE-MARSHAL TONY DAVIES. PLEASE JOIN IN REPEATING THE FINAL LINE WE WILL REMEMBER THEM. AT THIS HOUR, ON THIS DAY, ANZAC RECEIVED ITS BAPTISM OF FIRE AND BECAME ONE OF THE IMMORTAL NAMES IN HISTORY. WE WHO ARE GATHERED HERE THINK OF THE COMRADES WHO WENT OUT WITH US TO BATTLE BUT DID NOT RETURN. WE FEEL THEM STILL NEAR US IN SPIRIT. WE WISH TO BE WORTHY OF THEIR GREAT SACRIFICE. LET US THEREFORE ONCE AGAIN DEDICATE OURSELVES TO THE SERVICE OF THE IDEALS FOR WHICH THEY DIED. AS THE DAWN IS EVEN NOW ABOUT TO PIERCE THE NIGHT, SO LET THEIR MEMORIES INSPIRE US TO WORK FOR THE COMING OF THE NEW LIGHT INTO THE DARK PLACES IN THE WORLD. WE WILL REMEMBER THEM. ALL: WE WILL REMEMBER THEM. WE NOW COME TO THE LAYING OF WREATHS IN MEMORY OF ALL FALLEN SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN AND ALL WHO HAVE SERVED. I CALL UPON THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CHRISTOPHER LUXTON, PRIME MINISTER OF NEW ZEALAND, TOGETHER WITH BRAD WILLIAMS, TO LAY THE WREATHS ON BEHALF OF THE MEN AND WOMEN OF NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA. THIS IS THE FIRST ANZAC DAY SERVICE FOR THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CHRISTOPHER LUXTON AS PRIME MINISTER. HE IS JOINED BY THE CONSULATE GENERAL FOR AUSTRALIA WHO IS ALSO THE TRADE COMMISSIONER, TRADING WITH NEW ZEALAND, PAPUA NEW GUINEA AND THE PACIFIC. DESLEY SIMPSON, DEPUTY MAYOR OF AUCKLAND, ON BEHALF OF THE MAYOR AND THE CITIZENS OF AUCKLAND. THE MAYOR OF AUCKLAND WAYNE BROWN COULDN'T ATTEND THIS MORNING. HIS FATHER SERVED WITH THE 18TH ARMOURED. DESLEY SIMPSON FOLLOWS IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HER FATHER, WHO WAS SERVING AND ALSO WAS CHAIR OF THE AUCKLAND HARBOUR BOARD. ON BEHALF OF THE CHIEF OF DEFENCE FORCE AND ALL THOSE SERVING IN THE NEW ZEALAND DEFENCE FORCE. THE NEW ZEALAND DEFENCE FORCE CURRENTLY NUMBERS 15,000, INCLUDING 8700 REGULAR FORCE AND 3300 RESERVE FORCE PERSONNEL. DEPLOYMENTS INCLUDE SUDAN AND THE SOLOMON ISLANDS WHERE A 200 STRONG JOINT TASK FORCE IS CURRENTLY COMPLETING A DEPLOYMENT. SIR GRAHAM LOWE, PATRON OF THE AUCKLAND RSA. AND RNZ AF AND AUCKLAND RSA EXECUTIVE, ON BEHALF OF THE AUCKLAND RSA. MANY WILL KNOW SIR GRAHAM LOWE OF COURSE, THE LEAGUE COACHING LEGEND. AND THERE IS ALSO A BIG LEAGUE MATCH LATER TODAY. THE WARRIORS VERSUS THE GOLD COAST TITANS. THE OFFICER IS A MEMBER OF THE AUCKLAND RSA EXECUTIVE, AS THE RSA LOOKS TO PASS THE TORCH OF REMEMBRANCE TO YOUNGER MEMBERS. MAJOR JACK HAVE ON BEHALF OF OF NEW ZEALAND VETERANS ASSOCIATION. JACK SERVED IN THE VIETNAM WAR WITH NEW ZEALAND INFANTRY REGIMENT. HE ALSO COMMANDED FOR TROOP NEW ZEALAND SAS. DEAN OF THE ORGAN CONSULAR CORPS ON BEHALF OF THE CONSULAR CORPS OF AUCKLAND. MR KEUTEKARAKIA MATAROA IS CONSULAR GENERAL FOR THE COOK ISLANDS, 500 COOK ISLANDS IS FOUGHT DURING THE WORLD WAR I WAR ON THE WESTERN FRONT WE NOW COME TO THE COMMEMORATION FOR THE FALLEN. THE PLAYING OF THE LAST POST BY SGT BILL BREMER OF THE BAND OF THE ROYAL REGIMENT OF THE NEW ZEALAND ARTILLERY. AND THE LOWERING OF THE FLAGS ON THE CENOTAPH SYMBOLISE A MILITARY FUNERAL AS WE HONOUR THEIR MEMORY. THE ODE FOR THE FALLEN WILL BE SPOKEN IN TE REO BY BARRY WATSON AT VIETNAM VETERAN AND IN ENGLISH BY PILOT OFFICERS ISABELLE BURR, NEW ZEALAND CADET FORCE. FINALLY, THE SOUNDING OF REVELLIE AND THE RAISING OF THE FLEX PROCLAIMS A BELIEF THAT THE ET SEQ LAND EXECUTIVE BILLY WAS THE DAWN OF NATIONHOOD FOR NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA. (THE LAST POST PLAYS) MAUMAHARA TONU TATOU KI A RATOU ALL: KA MAUMAHARA TONU TATOU KI A E KORE RATOU E KAUMATUATIA PENEI I A TATOU KUA MAHUE NEI E KORE HOKI RATOU E NGOIKORE AHAKOA PEHEA I NGA AHUATANGA O TE WA I TE HEKENGA ATU O TE RA TAE NOA KI TE ARANGA MAI I TE ATA KA MAUMAHARA TONU TATOU KI A RATOU KA MAUMAHARA TONU TATOU KI A RATOU. THEY SHALL GROW NOT OLD, AS WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM, NOR THE YEARS CONDEMN AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THEM. ALL: WE WILL REMEMBER THEM. (SILENCE) (BAGPIPES PLAY) (BAGPIPES CONTINUE) (TRUMPETS PLAY) (TRUMPETS CONTINUE) PARADE, AT EASE. MURRAY WATENE, VIETNAM VETERAN, WILL RECITE HIS POEM 'STAND TO (FIRST LIGHT ANZAC)' 'STAND TO (FIRST LIGHT ANZAC)' STANDING TALL AND PROUD, AS THE DAWN BREAKS ON THIS ANZAC MORN, IT HAS BEEN WRITTEN, WE WARRIORS OF YESTER YEAR, WILL ONCE AGAIN, 'STAND TO' THIS DAY OF REMEMBRANCE WENT, A TIME TO GREET OLD MATES, SO MANY THEY REST IN PEACE, THEIR SERVICE WITH HONOURS GIVEN, WE SET THE TREND WHEN WE WERE YOUNG, STILL WET BEHIND THE EARS, TO SOME WHOSE HEALTH IS NOT THE BEST, TO SOME WHOSE WIT SHARP AS A TACK, THE MIND IS WILLING, THE BODY SPENT, THIS LIFE'S JOURNEY WILL AGAIN BRING FORTH, SWEET MEMORIES OF TIME LAST SEEN, WE SEE THE GHOST OF FACES PAST, I FEEL THEIR PRESENCE NEAR, WE SALUTE THEIR COURAGE, WE HONOUR THEIR SACRIFICE, TO ALL VETERANS HERE, TO THE SOULS OF BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN, LET'S CELEBRATE, A TOAST TO COUNTRY, LOYALTY, HONOUR AND MATES, DRINK TO THESE PRECIOUS MOMENTS IN TIME, STILL WE ARE WARRIORS, WE MUST, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM, 'STAND DOWN.' GOD BE WITH YOU TILL WE MEET AGAIN. AMENE. THE NATIONAL ANTHEMS OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND WILL BE SUNK BY TEAR THE NATIONAL ANTHEMS OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND WILL BE SUNG BY TE OHORERE WILLIAMS AND ACCOMPANIED BY THE GLENDOWIE COLLEGE CHOIR. # AUSTRALIANS ALL LET US REJOICE # FOR WE ARE ONE AND FREE # WE'VE GOLDEN SOIL AND WEALTH FOR TOIL # OUR HOME IS GIRT BY SEA # OUR LAND ABOUNDS IN NATURE'S GIFTS # OF BEAUTY RICH AND RARE # IN HISTORY'S PAGE LET EVERY STAGE # ADVANCE AUSTRALIA FAIR # IN JOYFUL STRAINS THEN LET US SING # ADVANCE AUSTRALIA FAIR PRESENT ARMS. # E IHOWA ATUA # O NGA IWI MATOU RA # ATA WHAKARANGONA # ME AROHA NOA # KIA HUA KO TE PAI # KIA TAU TO ATAWHAI # MANAAKITIA MAI # AOTEAROA # GOD OF NATIONS AT THY FEET # IN THE BONDS OF LOVE WE MEET # HEAR OUR VOICES, WE ENTREAT # GOD DEFEND OUR FREE LAND # GUARD PACIFIC'S TRIPLE STAR # FROM THE SHAFTS OF STRIFE AND WAR # MAKE HER PRAISES HEARD AFAR # GOD DEFEND NEW ZEALAND CHAPLAIN WILL PRONOUNCE THE BENEDICTION. THE GOSPELS OF MATTHEW, MARK AND LUKE BEGAN THE MINISTRY OF USE THIS WITH THESE WORDS FROM THE PROPHET ISAAC. A VOICE CRIES OUT IN THE WILDERNESS. PREPARE THE WAY OF THE LORD. MAKE A STRAIGHT IN THE DESERT A HIGHWAY FOR OUR GOD. EVERY VALLEY SHALL BE LIFTED UP, AND EVERY MOUNTAIN AND HILL MADE LOW. AND UNEVEN GROUND SHALL BECOME LEVEL, AND THE ROUGH PLACES APLANE. THIS PASSAGE IS ABOUT MAKING THINGS RIGHT. AND I CHALLENGE EACH OF US HERE TODAY TO BE A PEOPLE THAT BUILD, HEAL, CREATE, PRAISE AND BRING PEACE. MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND SHINE HIS FACE UPON YOU. (SPEAKS TE REO MAORI) AMENE. (SLIENCE) THAT CONCLUDES THIS ANZAC SERVICE. AS OUR VETERANS AND THE SERVICE CONTINGENTS ARE ABOUT TO MARCH OFF, FOLLOWED BY THE DEPARTURE OF THE OFFICIAL PARTY, PLEASE REMAIN WHERE YOU ARE UNTIL THE CATAFALQUE GUARD AND FLAG PARTY HAVE BEEN DISMISSED. YOU ARE THEN WELCOME TO PLACE A POPPY ON THE CENOTAPH. IN REMEMBRANCE. ON BEHALF OF THE NEW ZEALAND VIETNAM VETERANS' ASSOCIATION, AUCKLAND RSA, AUCKLAND COUNCIL AND THE AUCKLAND WAR MEMORIAL MUSEUM, THANK YOU FOR JOINING US THIS ANZAC DAY. (GRAND MUSIC) (APPLAUSE) ('TIME TO SAY GOODBYE' PLAYS) (APPLAUSE) (MUSIC CONTINUES) (APPLAUSE) (MUSIC CONTINUES) ('TIME TO SAY GOODBYE' PLAYS) (MUSIC CONTINUES) (APPLAUSE) (APPLAUSE) (APPLAUSE) LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT. ATTENTION. (SILENCE) (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYS) THEY MAKE THEIR WAY FROM THE COURTYARD, FOLLOWING THE FLAG BEARING PARTY. AND OF COURSE WE HAD THE PROCESSION OF VETERANS MAKING THEIR WAY FROM THEIR POSITIONS IN FRONT OF THE AUCKLAND WAR MEMORIAL MUSEUM ON WHAT LOOKS LIKE A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN AUCKLAND WHERE THOUSANDS IF NOT TENS OF THOUSANDS ARE IN ATTENDANCE. YOU CAN SEE JUST BEHIND THEM THE MARAMA, A FULL MOON, PERHAPS A SIGN OF AN AUSPICIOUS MOMENT HERE IN AUCKLAND. THE OFFICIAL PARTY AND THE FLAG BEARING PARTY AT THE AUCKLAND DAWN SERVICE THIS MORNING, ONE OF MANY DAWN SERVICES BEING HELD AROUND AUCKLAND. IF I AM NOT WRONG, WE ARE ABOUT TO HEAR A HAKA TAUTOKO RING OUT FROM A SIGNIFICANT HISTORIC SITE IN MAORI HISTORY. IT IS CALLED THE HITCHING POST OF MANY CANOES, THE GATHERING OF MANY CANOES, FOR A REASON. THAT TRADITION CONTINUES TODAY. THERE ARE CANOES FROM ACROSS NEW ZEALAND. AND OF COURSE OUR CLOSE FRIENDS FROM THE ANTIC TRADITION IN AUSTRALIA. HERE IN AUCKLAND, I SHOULD SAY, THERE IN AUCKLAND, AS WE BROADCAST WITH WHAKAATA MAORI THIS MORNING. (SPEAKS TE REO MAORI) WE WILL REMEMBER THEM. LEST WE FORGET. (CHANTS HAKA) (CHANTS HAKA) (ALL CHANTS) (ALL CHANT) (ALL CHANT) (ALL CHANT) (ALL CHANT HAKA) (ALL CHANT HAKA TAUTOKO) (ALL CHANT HAKA TAUTOKO) (ALL CHANT HAKA TAUTOKO) (ALL CHANT HAKA TAUTOKO) ALL: HI! (APPLAUSE) THAT HAKA WAS FROM THE VANGUARD MILITARY SCHOOL BASED IN AUCKLAND, FIRST OPENED IN 2014. THEIR HAKA TALKED ABOUT STANDING STRONG AND STANDING BRAVE. IT IS BASED ON PRACTICES AND TRADITIONS ENCAPSULATED IN ANZAC DAY, AND RIGHT ON CUE, ONE OF THE MAIN PARTS OF THE AUCKLAND DAWN SERVICE, THE HERCULES WHICH HAS COME FROM WHERE THE VANGUARD MILITARY SCHOOL IS BASED, JUST ON THE NORTH SHORE, WHERE IT MADE ITS WAY FROM DEVONPORT WHERE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ARE AT THE AUCKLAND WAR MEMORIAL MUSEUM, AT THE AUCKLAND WAR MEMORIAL TODAY TO SEE THE FLYOVER OF THE HERCULES. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO COME FORWARD. (BEAUTIFUL MUSIC PLAYS) (MUSIC CONTINUES) (MUSIC CONTINUES) AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, THERE ARE MANY, MANY PEOPLE BEHIND OUR SPECIAL DAY OF COMMEMORATION IN AOTEAROA. VOLUNTEERS AND ORGANISERS, VETERANS AND CIVILIANS ALL PUT IN COUNTLESS HOURS OF MAHI EACH YEAR TO HELP US REMEMBER THOSE THAT HAVE SERVED. BUT WHAT DRIVES SO MANY TO GIVE SO MUCH? WE SPOKE TO ONE OF THE KEY ORGANISERS OF THE AUCKLAND DAWN SERVICE AND FIELDS OF REMEMBRANCE, ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF COMMEMORATION. I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT NEW ZEALANDERS COME OUT AND HONOUR SERVICES AND SACRIFICE. IT AS A PLACE LIKE THIS, IT IS A SPECIAL PLACE, A CENOTAPH IN FRONT OF THIS PLACE, VETERANS COULD COME AND REMEMBER THEIR MATES, WHEN YOU LOOK AROUND THE WALLS OF THIS MUSEUM, AND YOU LOOK AT ALL THE NAMES, THEY NEVER HAD A CHANCE TO COME HOME. SO I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT. WE'VE LOST JUST OVER 33,000 NEW ZEALANDERS. AND THAT'S A LOT OF PEOPLE. AND I AM NOT SITTING HERE GLORIFYING WAR, FREEDOM DOESN'T COME FREE. I HAD A DISCUSSION WITH NEW ZEALAND MUSEUM, AND I SAID THEY NEEDED TO BE UP. AND THERE ARE NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AN AFGHAN OR A TEAM OR VETERAN THAN ME. WE ARE ALL THE SAME, WE ARE ALL A BAND OF BROTHERS. WE ARE ALL MATES. ONE OF MY PASSIONS IS COMMEMORATIONS, WHEN I DID THE FIELDS OF REMEMBRANCE I CAN REMEMBER HOW THAT ALL CAME ABOUT. CONSIDERATE A PRIVILEGE, IT'S THE LEAST WE CAN DO FOR MEN AND WOMEN THAT SACRIFICE THEIR LIVES FOR OUR NATION. THE FIRST TIME THEY DID THAT FIELD THE TIMOR, THE AFGHANISTAN, THE BOSNIAN, IT WAS REALLY SPECIAL. WE BROUGHT THEM HOME ONE TIME, TO HONOUR THEM. AND IT WAS QUITE SPECIAL TO SEE THEM OUT IN THE FIELD. IT WAS FITTING THAT WE DO THAT. THE MEMORIES OF THE YOUNG ONES SITTING IN THE FIELDS, READING POETRY TO THE CROSSES, VERY OLD MAORI LADY THAT CAME, SHE SAT IN FRONT OF A CROSS SHE WAS TALKING TO THIS CRUST FOR OVER AN TALKING TO THIS CROSS FOR OVER AN HOUR* WE WORK WITH THE VIETNAM VETERANS, AND WE PUT TOGETHER THE DAWN SERVICE WITH OUR PARTNERS, YOUR TELEVISION COMPANY, WE DO IT WITH THE AUCKLAND WAR MEMORIAL MUSEUM, AND WE DO IT WITH THE ORCHID COUNCIL. THE BEST WE'VE HAD IS ABOUT 40,000, IT'S THE BIGGEST SHOW IN TOWN. AND SO IT SHOULD BE. THIS IS A MAGNIFICENT CENOTAPH, IT IS A MAGNIFICENT PLACE. IT REPRESENTS WHO WE ARE AS NEW ZEALANDERS. IT IS ABOUT THE YOUNG ONES. I WAS AT THE YOUNG ONES TO BE THE REEF IT IS AN HONOUR TO GIVE BACK AND REPRESENT THOSE WHO ARE NOT HERE. IT IS VERY SPECIAL IN FRONT OF ORGANS MUSEUM, AUCKLAND* BECAUSE IT IS A VERY SPECIAL PLACE. WE HAVE TO HONOUR THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE FALLEN, THEIR NAMES ON THE CROSSES ARE SPECIAL. IT IS A TIME TO REFLECT ON THOSE WHO HAVE SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES TO OUR FREEDOM. THEY STOOD THEIR GROUND, AND IT GIVES ME INSPIRATION, AND MAKES ME NOT WANT TO GIVE UP ON LIFE. IF THERE IS A LESSON TO BE LEARNED FROM THESE PLACES, THESE NAMES, IT IS - AS LONG AS WE HAVE GOT CRAZY PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO ARE ALWAYS GOING TO HAVE CONFLICTS AND WARS, AND YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN, NEW ZEALANDERS ARE GOING TO BE CALLED TO SERVICE, AND HAVE TO GO AND HARMS WAY. THE LEAST WE CAN DO THEY COME HOME AND I INJURED OUR LOOK AFTER THEM. IF THEY ARE KILLED, WE BRING THEM HOME. THEIR SERVICE ARE JUST AS IMPORTANT AS THE NAMES ON THE WALLS. (SPEAKING TE REO) AND AS YOU CAN SEE, THE FIRST LIGHT BREAKS ON THE HORIZON, AROUND 50,000 PEOPLE HAVE COME TO THE DAWN SERVICE THIS MORNING. JOINING ME NOW IS THE PRIME MINISTER, THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CHRISTOPHER LUXON, WHO AS YOU SAW EARLIER, LAID A WREATH AT THIS DAWN SERVICE FOR THE FIRST TIME AS PRIME MINISTER. E TE PIRIMIA TENA KOE. GOOD TO BE WITH YOU. GOOD TO HAVE YOU HERE. YOU HAVE JUST RECENTLY RETURNED FROM SOUTHEAST ASIA, WHERE SINGAPORE EXPRESS AN INTEREST AND USING NEW ZEALAND AIRSPACE, FOR DRONE OPERATIONS, WHICH COULD RAISE SOME SOVEREIGN AND SECURITY INTERESTS PROBLEMS FOR NEW ZEALAND. HOW DO YOU BALANCE YOUR GOVERNMENT? HOW DO YOU BALANCE PROTECTING OUR NATIONAL INTEREST AS WELL AS GAINING THE ECONOMIC BENEFITS THAT YOU WOULD GET FROM PARTNERSHIPS LIKE THAT? ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU HAVE EVENTS LIKE THIS HERE IN ANZAC, AND YOU WANT TO PROTECT THE AREAS AND EVENTS GOING ON, AND IT HAS CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE. WE HAD A LONG-STANDING DEFENCE RELATIONSHIP WITH SINGAPORE FOR A LONG TIME. IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE GOOD DEFENCE RELATIONSHIPS ACROSS THE REGION, WHEN WE HAVE A SECURE AND STABLE REGION AND WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN BUILD OUT OUR PROSPERITY ACROSS THE REGION. NEW ZEALAND IS A SMALL TRADING NATION, SO DEFENCE AND ECONOMIC INTERESTS ARE LINKED. BRILLIANT TO BE TODAY, A VERY SPECIAL DAY, A SACRED DAY TO COMMEMORATE AND REMEMBER AND REFLECT ON KIWI SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN PAST AND PRESENT THAT DO A GREAT JOB STANDING UP FOR OUR VALUES. WHAT DOES ANZAC MEAN FOR YOU PERSONALLY? IT IS OR HAS BEEN A SPECIAL DAY. I TYPICALLY ALWAYS COME TO THE SERVICE WITH MY SON. WE GET UP EARLIER COME HERE LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE. MORE RECENTLY, I HAVE COME AS THE LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION, AND NOW THE PRIME MINISTER. IT IS GOOD TO SEE NEW ZEALAND EMBRACING ANZAC DAY. IT IS A SACRED DAY IN OUR CALENDAR. IT IS ALSO GOOD TO SEE NEW ZEALANDERS WHO WERE BORN OVERSEAS CELEBRATING. IT'S A DAY THAT I REMEMBER MY RELATIVES WHO SERVED, I GET OUT THE LETTERS HE WROTE TALKING ABOUT THE WONDERS OF TRAVEL BUT THE HORRORS OF WAR. NO REIRA, KIA MOKOWHITI ANO RA TATOU KI TURANGANUI A KIWA, KI TURANGA ARARAU. KEI REIRA A TAKUTA MONTY SOUTAR, RAUA KO TA MATOU KAIWHAKATAKI A JULIAN. KIA ORA MAI ANO. KO TURANGA MAHARA RAU. KIA KOTAHI RA. THIS MUSEUM IS A PROJECT UNDERTAKEN BY NGA TAONGA A NGA TAMA TOA TRUST IN PARTNERSHIP WITH TAIRAWHITI MUSEUM. AND ALTHOUGH THE HOUSE IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN OF C COMPANY WHO SERVED IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR, IT CONTAINS A WEALTH OF STORIES, MEMORIES AND ARTIFACTS THAT ACKNOWLEDGE THE SOLDIERS' CONTRIBUTION AND REFLECT ON THEIR TRIUMPHS AND TRAGEDIES. (SPEAKS TE REO MAORI) I AM A SON OF THE VETERAN OF C COMPANY, BUT I THINK FOR MYSELF, THAT MORE AND MORE, THE COURAGE, THE COMMITMENT, THAT THESE MEN SHOWED IS EXTRAORDINARY. I THINK IT REMINDS US OF HOW EXTRAORDINARY WE AS PEOPLE CAN BE. IT FORCES YOU TO THINK ABOUT THE VALUE OF LIFE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF IT. BEGINS RIGHT HERE THAT MAORI WEREN'T ALLOWED TO GO TO THIS WAR, BUT SOME MANAGED TO GET THERE, THE BULL WAR, THIS MAN SERVED IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR AS WELL. AFTER GALLIPOLI, HE CAME HOME AND HE BECAME THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE RSA. WE COME ALONG TO THE FIRST WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPHS, THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS OF THE MEN WHO VOLUNTEERS IN 1914, IN 2014, 100 YEARS LATER, WE WANTED TO REPLICATE THAT PHOTO, WE HAD THE SAME AMOUNT OF MEN, 60, DRESSED IN PERIOD UNIFORMS, AND IT WAS A VERY MOVING OCCASION TO SEE THESE YOUNG MEN IN THESE UNIFORMS, BECAUSE IT REMINDED US JUST HOW YOUNG OUR GREAT GRANDFATHERS WERE. MANY OF THESE YOUNG MEN ARE THE GREAT-GRANDSON IS OF THE MEN IN THAT PHOTO. I MENTIONED ON THE OTHER SIDE, THIS MAN AND HIS WIFE, SHE FOLLOWED HIM TO WAR AGAINST REGULATIONS. SHE WAS PREGNANT WHEN SHE WENT OVER, I DON'T KNOW THAT SHE KNEW IT AT THE TIME, BUT SHE STAYED LONG ENOUGH TO HAVE THEIR DAUGHTER BORN IN ALEXANDRIA. THAT IS ONE OF HER NAMES, AND SHE WAS A WELL-KNOWN PERSONALITY HERE. THE MAORI POLITICIANS WHO WERE ENCOURAGING OUR MEN TO VOLUNTEER, I GUESS IT WEIGHED ON THEIR CONSCIENCE WHEN YOU ARE SENDING OUR FATHERS, MOTHERS, BOYS TO WAR, SIR APIRANA NGATA WAS ENLISTED. JAMES'S SON WAS THE LAST MAORI KILLED AT GALLIPOLI. THIS IS THE LAST WORLD WAR II SECTION OF THE DISPLAY. WE HAVE SOME INTERESTING PHOTOGRAPHS. WE HAVE C COMPANY AT THE START OF THE WAR, AND THEN WE HAVE THEM AT THE END OF THE WAR COMING HOME TO GISBORNE. THIS IS HIM AND ALL HIS COUSINS WHO WERE SERVING. 70% OF THEM ENDED UP KILLED, WOUNDED OR MADE PRISONERS OF WAR. WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE IMPACT THAT MUST HAVE HAD ON THEIR COMMUNITY. I THINK WHAT IS UNIQUE ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR EXHIBITION IS THAT PEOPLE CAN COME IN, TOUCH, FOR EXAMPLE, SOMEONE COMES IN, RECOGNISES THE PEOPLE IN THE PHOTOGRAPH, PUTS A STICKY ON THEIR FOR US TO ADD TO THE INFORMATION WE HAVE ABOUT THEM. I REMEMBER WHEN THE BUILDING OPENED AND OUR NANNIES CAME IN THERE, THEY WEPT OVER THE PHOTOGRAPH. YOU CAN SPELL TEARS ON THEM - WE DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT. IT IS AMAZING WHAT WE GET - OR WHAT COMES INTO THE COLLECTION. I WOULDN'T SAY DONATED. SOMETIMES THEY ARE JUST ON LOAN TO US FROM FAMILIES. FOR EXAMPLE, THESE THINGS HERE ARE OVER 100 YEARS OLD. THEY ARE DIARIES, THIS ONE HERE WAS WRITTEN WHILE IN GALLIPOLI FROM A MAORI SOLDIER LYNN DURIE FROM HICKS BAY. THIS ONE HERE IS FROM FRANCE AND BELGIUM. WE GET THESE AMAZING OBJECTS, LIKE THESE THAT WERE CARVED ON THE SHIP ON THE WAY HOME TO NEW ZEALAND. THIS HERE IS A COPY OF THE 28TH MAORI BATTALIONS WAR DIARY. SO IT IS DAY BY DAY, MONTH BY MONTH, YEAR BY YEAR FOR THE DURATION OF THE WAR. ONE OF OUR VETERANS, ONE OF OUR UNCLES, GAVE IT TO US TO PUT INTO THE COLLECTION. WE ASKED HIM HOW HE GOT IT, HE WOULDN'T TELL US, BUT HE SAID IT WOULD BE USEFUL FOR WRITING THE HISTORY OF C COMPANY IN THE FUTURE, AND IT WAS. OVER HERE WE HAVE A ROPEY SHIELD THAT WAS CARVED IN A PRISONER OF WAR CAMP. RUGBY* SHIELD. ALL THE METALS IN THE SHIELD WERE FROMINSIDE THE CAMP, WHAT THEY COULD GET THEIR HANDS ON. THIS WALL IS A REFLECTION OF THE HOME FRONT. THE MAORI BATTALION IN WORLD WAR II WAS JUST A SPEARHEAD OF WHAT GOES ON BACK IN THE COUNTRY. WE THOUGHT ABOUT HOW COULD WE REFLECT THAT ON THIS WALL? THE PEOPLE WHO ASSISTED BY RUNNING THE FARM THINK GETTING FOOD ACROSS TO THE SOLDIERS, AND WE DECIDED, WELL, OUR MARAES ARE PROBABLY THE BEST WAY TO REFLECT THAT. THE FINAL INFORMATION BOARD IN THIS BUILDING WE THINK IS MOST IMPORTANT. WE WANTED PEOPLE TO THINK ABOUT THE COST WAR HAS ON FAMILIES. WHAT WE WANT PEOPLE TO THINK ABOUT HAVING LOOKED AT THE IMPACT IT HAS HAD ON OUR PEOPLE - ISN'T THERE ANOTHER WAY TO SOLVE OUR DIFFERENCES? THIS IS AN AMAZING PLACE, EH? WHAT AN HONOUR AND PRIVILEGE IT IS TO BE HERE AT THE C COMPANY MUSEUM. STAY WITH US, WHAI MURI I NGA WHAKATAIRANGA, VERY SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE FROM TA APIRANA NGATA, AND THE PRICE OF CITIZENSHIP. KO WHAKAATA MAORI TENEI, KIA KOTAHI TE RA E TAMARA MA. GERMANY INVADES POLAND, VIOLATING THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES. ENGLAND AND NEW ZEALAND DECLARE WAR ON GERMANY. APIRANA NGATA PERFORMS WITH AN ALL MAORI UNIT - THE 28TH MAORI BATTALION. THEY SET SAIL FOR EGYPT, BUT THE WAR IN EUROPE ESCALATES, SO THEY GO VIA AFRICA. FRANCE HAS FALLEN TO GERMANY, AND ITALY HAS JOINED THE ACCESS, CONFIDENT OF THEIR ALLIANCE. BUT ENGLAND FOUGHT THE GERMAN INVASION WHILE THE MAORI BATTALION BECOMES AN EXTENSIVELY TRAINED UNIT. THEY MUST CIRCLE AFRICA AGAIN TO ARRIVE IN EGYPT, READY FOR THEIR FIRST ASSIGNMENT IN GREECE. ONCE HE RESPECTED THAT THE CROWN PARTNER WOULD REGARD MAORI AS EQUAL CITIZENS. TWO OF SIR APIRANA NGATA'S SONS SERVED IN THE MAORI BATTALION. THEY SHOW THE SOFTER SIDE WHEN HE WAS TAKEN PRISONER OF WAR. HENARE WAS THE YOUNGEST SON OF SIR APIRANA NGATA. WHEN WORLD WAR II BROKE OUT, HE LEFT STUDYING TO BECOME AN ACCOUNTANT. HE SIGNED UP FOR WAR. MAY 1940, SGT MAJ HENARE NGATA LEFT WITH THE 28TH MAORI BATTALION. AT FIRST, HE MARRIED HIS SWEETHEART, A STUDENT TEACHER, WHO HE MET AT VICTORIA UNIVERSITY. THREE MONTHS LATER, HE SAILED TO WAR. ZANDRIA TARE AS HIS GRANDDAUGHTER AND A RESEARCH LIBRARIAN IN GISBORNE. HE WROTE TO HIS WIFE FROM THE SHIP TAKING HIM TO WAR. THEY HAD JUST ENCOUNTERED THREE SHIPS THAT HAD BEEN SUNG HOURS EARLIER. TO THINGS OFF, THE TORPEDO WAS FIRED AT THE CONVOY, MEANTIME, THEY WAS EXACTING EVERY EIGHT MINUTES OR SO. IT WAS SUCH A CONSIDERABLE DISTANCE AWAY THAT WE WERE ABLE TO CHANGE COURSE IN TIME. IN GREECE IN LATE MARCH 1941, CAPT HENARE'S INFANTRY FLED TO ESCAPE A GERMAN ATTACK. THEY DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH WEAPONS OR AIR SUPPORT. HE WAS ONE OF 81 MAORI SOLDIERS WHO MADE THEIR WAY TO KINAMATA. THEY EXPECTED TO BE EVACUATED BY SHIP WHEN THE BATTALION ABANDONED GREECE. (SPEAKS TE REO MAORI) A SHIP HAD ALREADY EVACUATED THE REST OF THE MAORI BATTALION FROM ATHENS, 238 KM AWAY. ON 29 APRIL 1941, THE BRITISH COMMANDER AT KALAMAT SURRENDERED TO THE GERMANS, AND HE BECAME A PRISONER OF WAR. (SPEAKS TE REO MAORI) HE SPENT THE NEXT FOUR YEARS AT A PRISON CAMP IN GERMANY. BUT TO BEGIN WITH, HIS WIFE AND THE FAMILY WERE TOLD ONLY THAT HE WAS MISSING IN ACTION. THAT BROUGHT A LOT OF WORRY. WAS HE ALIVE, WAS HE DID? BUT GRANDPA APIRANA HAD A DREAM, AND HE SAID, DON'T WORRY, I SAW HENRY IN CIVILIAN CLOTHES, SO I KNOW HE WILL BE ALRIGHT. IT WASN'T LONG AFTER THAT THAT CONFIRMATION CAME THAT HE HAD BEEN TAKEN PRISONER OF WAR. (SPEAKS TE REO MAORI) THREE MONTHS AFTER HIS CAPTURE, HIS WIFE RECEIVED A LETTER FROM A MRS BUCKLAND IN KENT, ENGLAND. DAYS LATER, HIS WIFE RECEIVED ANOTHER LETTER, THIS TIME FROM A FRIEND OF MRS BUCKLAND. PLEASE LET ME KNOW HENRY'S TASTE IN BOOKS AND WHAT HE IS INTERESTED IN. I THINK IT WOULD BE AMAZING TO KNOW OTHER PEOPLE ARE GOING THROUGH THE SAME THING IS YOU. ALSO THAT THEY ARE JUST A LITTLE BIT CLOSER TO THE ACTION, AND SO THEY MAY HERE OF NEWS BEFORE SHE DOES AND CAN PASS IT ON. SIR APIRANA NGATA ALSO WROTE REGULARLY TO HIS DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, ALL BY SIGNING OFF, YOUR LOVING DAD. (SPEAKS TE REO MAORI) IF THERE WAS AN ATTEMPTED PRISON BREAK, THEN YOU, YOU, YOU, SHOT. EVEN IF YOU WANT THE ONE TRYING TO ESCAPE. THERE WAS A PERIOD OF TIME, DEFINITELY A MONTH AND POSSIBLY LONGER, WHERE HE WAS MANACLED FOR REPRISALS. HE WASN'T THE ONE TRYING TO ESCAPE, SO IN HANDCUFFS FOR A MONTH. (READS) ON FEBRUARY 19, 1945, AMERICANS LIBERATED THE CAMP. (SPEAKS TE REO MAORI) I THINK ABOUT NOW WHEN WE USED TO PUT ON HIS CAPS AND RUN AROUND WITH OUR GUNS IN THE BUSH PLANE WAR PLAYING* WAR AND WHAT MUST HE HAVE THOUGHT - WE HAD NO IDEA. NO IDEA. HE WAS ONE OF 9000 NEW ZEALAND PRISONERS OF WAR. WHEN HE CAME HOME, HE JUST WANTED TO STAY ON THE FARM. BUT AFTER A YEAR, HIS FATHER SENT HIM BACK TO UNIVERSITY. IN 1948, HENARE BECAME THE FIRST MAORI TO QUALIFY AS AN ACCOUNTANT. AS THE WAR YEARS RECEDED, HE SERVED ON MANY BOARDS AND CAMPAIGN FOR MAORI CAUSES. FOR MANY YEARS, SHE DROVE HER GRANDFATHER TO VARIOUS ENGAGEMENTS. HENCE THEY COULDN'T HAVE CHILDREN, SO THEY ADOPTED MY DAD. AND AUNTIE WIKI WAS A WHANGAI, AND SUE WAS HIS NIECE. AND HE SAID TO ME, WE'VE FILLED OUR LIVES. SHE IS THE KAITIAKI OF HER GRANDFATHER AND GREAT-GRANDFATHER'S PERSONAL STORIES. EVERY DAY HE TOLD US THAT HE LOVED US. HE DIDN'T ONLY SHOW IT BY, YOU KNOW, BUYING US UNIFORMS OR COMING DOWN TO WATCH US LOSE EVERYTHING A CRICKET MATCH WE PLAYED IN. HE VERBALISED IT. HE WAS KNIGHTED IN 1982 AND PASSED AWAY ON DECEMBER 11, 2011, AGED 93. MAORI WERE RELUCTANT TO BE CAPTURED, THAT GOES BACK TO THE PRECOLONIAL. WHERE YOU DIDN'T WANT TO BE CAPTURED BY ANOTHER TRIBE, IT WAS A LOWERING OF YOUR MANa, AND MAORI WERE TRYING THEIR BEST NOT TO BE CAPTURED DURING THE WAR. I KNEW VERY LITTLE OF THEM, I HAD VERY LITTLE OPPORTUNITIES TO INTERVIEW, AND OBVIOUSLY YOU KNEW THEM WELL GIVEN THE WORK HERE, WHAT WAS HE LIKE? A GENTLEMAN. MEN LIKE HIM, THEY GUIDED US YOUNG PEOPLE WHEN WE WERE RESEARCHING STORIES FOR THE BOOK, AND ALSO FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THIS HOUSE, THEY WERE THE GUIDING LIGHT BEHIND THAT, AND I HAVE TO CREDIT HIM FOR A LOT OF THE KNOWLEDGE I HAVE TODAY, THAT HE WAS SO WILLING TO SHARE IT WITH ME. THE OTHER THING IS, WE ARE STANDING HERE NOW, WHAT IS IT LIKE REFLECTING ON THE LIVES OF THESE GREAT MEN? FOR YOU, IT MUST BE AN INTERESTING POSITION. I AM SO HUMBLE, I LOOK AROUND THE HOUSE HERE AND I REMEMBER ALL THOSE VETERANS THAT WE INTERVIEWED OVER THE YEARS, I CAN SEE HIM, AND I CAN IMAGINE HE WOULD BE VERY PROUD, THAT WE ARE IN THE HOUSE TODAY, AND THAT WE ARE BROADCASTING LIVE. GERMAN FORCES ARE COMING. THE MAORI BATTALION FACES THE ENEMY. DESPITE RUTHLESS FIGHTING, THEY ARE FORCED TO RETREAT, TRAVELLING THROUGH THE TWISTING GREEK MOUNTAINS IN THE DARK OF NIGHT. THEY ARE EVACUATED, BUT THEIR RESPITE SHORT LIVED. GERMAN PARATROOPERS SMOTHER THE ISLAND DETERMINED TO GAIN CONTROL. OVERWHELMED, THE ANZACS FORM A REARGUARD, LETTING THE OTHERS ESCAPE. IN THE OLIVE TREES, THE MAORI BATTALION AND THE ANZACS, TURNED THEIR BAYONETS. THE ROLE OF MUSIC IN SUPPORTING THE MILITARY IS AS OLD AS THE CONFLICT ITSELF. IN 1939, SHE STARTED THE KAPA HAKA GROUP, AND THEIR LINKS TODAY ARE A STRONG TODAY AS THEY WERE BACK THEN. (SINGING IN TE REO) THIS IS THE HONOURABLE WI PERE, AND HE ESCORTED THE FIRST MEN FROM GISBORNE, THERE IS A SAYING, AND THE FIRST MAORI CONDITION THAT WENT TO WORLD WAR I CARRIED THE NAME TE HOKOWHITU A TU. (SPEAKING TE REO) (CONTINUES) (CONTINUES) (WAIATA) (SPEAKS TE REO MAORI) (SPEAKS TE REO MAORI) (SINGING IN TE REO) (SPEAKS TE REO MAORI) (SPEAKS TE REO MAORI) (SPEAKS TE REO MAORI) (SPEAKS TE REO MAORI) (SPEAKS TE REO MAORI) THE STORY OF TOTI TUHAKA AND HIS PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OF WAR IN KOREA. FOR TWO YEARS THEY BATTLED FOR CONTROL. AT ONE POINT, THE ANZACS ARE SURROUNDED, BUT PS THE CIRCLE OF TANKS AND A RISKY ESCAPE. THEY ARE DEFEATED, AND CHASED BACK TO TUNISIA. MEANWHILE, AMERICA HAS ENTERED THE WAR AS PART OF A CLEVER TRAP. CORNERED, THE AXIS SUFFERS A HUMILIATING DEFEAT, AS 1/4 OF A MILLION SOLDIERS SURRENDER, OPENING THE WAY TO ITALY. AS A BOY AT HIGH SCHOOL IN RUATORIA, TEURANGAOTERA, OR TOTI TUHAKA, HAD NEVER HEARD OF KOREA, OR EVEN THE NAVY. WITHIN TWO YEARS, THE NOW 89-YEAR-OLD WAS A GUNNER AND NAVY DIVER PATROLLING THE COAST OF KOREA. TOTI WAS FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF GENERATIONS OF WARRIORS IN HIS WHANAU. AT HIGH SCHOOL, TOTI WAS JUST 15 YEARS OLD WHEN MILITARY RECRUITERS VISITED. I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THE NAVY WAS, I HAD NEVER HEARD OF IT. MY FRIEND SAID COME, WE ARE GOING TO JOIN THE NAVY. I SAID WHAT IS THAT? HE SAID WE'RE GOING TO GO ON A SHIP. I SAID WHAT IS THAT? KOREA WAS AT WAR. MANY COUNTRIES HEEDED THE CALL FOR HELP. 1 MILLION TO 5 MILLION KOREANS WERE LEFT HOMELESS AND IN A PITIFUL STATE IN 1952, TOTI TUHAKA WAS A GUNNER. MY JOB WAS TO LOAD THE GUN. AT THE END OF THE KOREAN WAR, WE HELD THE RECORD FOR THE MOST ROUNDS FIRED - 42 ROUNDS PER MINUTE. I THINK THERE WAS ONE TIME WE WERE TOLD TO FIRE INTO A TUNNEL, A TRAIN TUNNEL. THE TRAIN WAS COMING THROUGH, AND THERE WAS A COMMUNIST TRAIN, AND IT WAS FOR THE NORTH KOREAN ARMY. WHEN YOU ARE ATTACKING, YOUR MIND IS FULLY ON YOUR JOB. YOU ARE ONLY THINKING ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE DOING. HE RECALLS THE SHIP ONCE COMING UNDER FIRE. WE TURNED OUR BACK ON THE LAND, AND WE SORT OF ZIGZAGGED OUR WAY OUT, WITH THE SHELLS LANDING ALL AROUND US. YOU COULD SEE PLACES GOING UP IN THE AIR, BUT NOT ONE OF THEM LANDED - WE WERE LUCKY. EXTREME COLD WAS ALSO A FACTOR. THE FIRST TIME OUR SHIP WAS OVER THE SEA WHERE WE WERE BREAKING THROUGH THE ICE, THE TOP OF THE SEA WAS ICE, AND THE SHIP WAS PLOUGHING THROUGH, AND YOU COULD HEAR THIS SHIP GRINDING THROUGH. BREAKING AS IT WAS GOING ALONG. IN PAEROA, HIS ELDEST SON IS THE KAITIAKI OF WHANAU TAONGA, DEDICATED TO GENERATIONS OF WAR SERVICE. HE STOOD 7'4". HE HAD SIX TOES ON EACH FOOT, AND HE HAD AN EXTRA DIGIT. HE HAD AN EXTRA ROW OF TEETH IN HIS MOUTH. HE WAS GIANT, HUMONGOUS. THIS WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE FIGHTING WITH PAKEHA - AGAINST THE PAKEHA, WE ARE FIGHTING WITH THEM. HIS LOYALTY WAS REWARDED WITH THIS CEREMONIAL SWORD. THIS IS THE SABRE. WHEN WE WERE KIDS, WE USED TO PLAY WITH IT. IF OUR GRANDFATHER CAUGHT US, LOOK OUT. WE STILL HAVE HIS GUN. AND WE HAVE HIS PATU AND MERE AS WELL. DAD TURNED UP AT ABOUT 6 O'CLOCK AT NIGHT. HE HAD THE SWORD AND THE PICTURE IN THE BACK OF THE CAR. THE SWORD I AM SHOWING YOU AND THE PICTURE HAVE NEVER LEFT GISBORNE, AND HE TURNED UP WITH IT, AND HE SAID HERE, IT IS YOUR TURN TO BE THE GUARDIAN OF THE SWORD AND THE PICTURE. HE COMES FROM A LONG LINE OF SERVICE THROUGH CAPTAIN PENE AMENE, ALSO THREW HIS FATHER, AND THEN IT WENT THROUGH TO DAD. THAT IS CORRECT - THERE IS A LONG LINE OF SERVICE. NOT ONLY THROUGH DAD BUT ALSO THROUGH HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERS HE SAID DAD HAD ALREADY DONE THE FIGHTING FOR US. STAY HOME, OUR TUPUNAS HAD ALREADY DONE IT. JUST LIKE HIS TUPUNA, HE WAS ALSO HONOURED BY THE QUEEN. HE RECEIVED A MEDAL FOR SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY. (SPEAKS TE REO MAORI) THE SOUTH KOREAN GOVERNMENT HAS ALSO RECOGNISED HIS SERVICE. AND THIS ANZAC DAY, HE WILL AGAIN WEAR HIS MEDALS WITH PRIDE. BE PROUD THAT YOU ARE A KIWI. FOR YOUR ANCESTORS WHO ARE WELL KNOWN AROUND THE WORLD AS TRUE FIGHTERS FOR THE UNITED NATIONS. BE PROUD - THEY MADE US WHO WE ARE. I AM JUST GRATEFUL THAT OUR FATHER CAME HOME. WHAT A BEAUTIFUL STORY. TOTI IS ACTUALLY JUST UP THE BACK - HE POPPED IN FIVE MINUTES AGO. WE WOULD LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE KOREAN WAR LEGACY FOUNDATION FOR SUPPLYING SOME OF THAT FOOTAGE THERE. IT IS GOOD TO HAVE HIM THERE. HOW MANY MURRAY SERVED IN THE WAR? THERE WEREN'T THAT MANY. THAT WAS LARGELY DUE TO RECRUITING AT THE TIME. MANY SERVED IN THE ARMY. LOOKING AT THE NAVY TODAY, THOSE NUMBERS HAVE GROWN THROUGH TARGETING RECRUITING. IT THEN BECAME ONE OF THE LARGE EMPLOYERS OF MAORI AND THE DEFENCE FORCE. MONTY, ARE THERE MANY VETERANS WHO SERVED IN THE KOREAN WAR LIKE TOTI? THERE IS NOT MANY LEFT NOW - HE IS 89 AT THE MOMENT, AND MOST KOREAN VETERANS WOULD BE IN THEIR 90S. CERTAINLY HE WOULD BE THE OLDEST MAORI VETERAN ON THE EAST COAST AT THE MOMENT. ONE OF THE OLDEST VETERANS PROBABLY IN THE REGION. SO GOOD HAVING HIM WALK IN HERE. IT WAS ALMOST LIKE WE STOOD AT ATTENTION. IT WAS AWESOME TO HAVE HIM COME IN, SO IT WAS GREAT TO HAVE HIM WITH US. AFTER THE BREAK, A VERY SPECIAL STORY ABOUT TIKITIKI. (SPEAKS TE REO MAORI) THE MAORI BATTALION WAS SENT TO ITALY, HALF OF WHICH REMAINS IN GERMAN CONTROL. DEFENDED BY THE WINTER LINE, MOUNTAIN RANGES AND AXIS TROOPS. THEY FOCUS ON A WEAK POINT - THE ONCE PEACEFUL TOWN OF MONTE CASINO. HOME OF 114 YEAR OLD ABBY. THE ALLIES, SUSPECTING THE TROOPS ARE INSIDE, PREPARE FOR DESTRUCTION. WHILE THE MAORI BATTALION FIGHT THEIR WAY THROUGH A MAZE OF SHATTERED BUILDINGS WITH 19 OTHER COUNTRIES, THEY WATCH AND A POSSIBLE CHOICE. AN IMPOSSIBLE* CHOICE BITTER GERMAN RESISTANCE KEEPS THEM IN ITALY FOR A YEAR. 100 YEARS AGO TODAY, THE FOUNDATION STONE WAS LAID AT A HIGHLY REVERED CHURCH, ST MARY'S IN TIKITIKI, TAIRAWHITI. IT IS THE ONLY CHURCH IN AOTEAROA CONSECRATED AS A WAR MEMORIAL TO WORLD WAR 1 SOLDIERS. KIM WEBBY VISITED ST MARY'S TO HEAR THE STORIES OF THIS CHURCH OF PEACE. THROUGHOUT WAIAPU, OVER 110 YEARS AGO, THIS WAS THE SCENE AS YOUNG MEN AND SOME OLDER ONES HEADED OFF TO WORLD WAR I. TODAY, THREE YOUNG MEN EMBODY THEIR TUPUNA END REPLICA WORLD WAR I UNIFORMS. (SPEAKS TE REO MAORI) THE GREATEST THING TO ME ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR CHURCH AND ITS SACREDNESS AND JUST THE WAIRUA, THE PURPOSE IT WAS BUILT FOR, THE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO WENT OVERSEAS IN BATTLE. (SPEAKS TE REO MAORI) MY BROTHERS WENT OVERSEAS. I FEEL THEIR WAIRUA COMING IN HERE, THAT THEY ARE PART OF THIS BUILDING. HISTORIC ST MARY'S CHURCH IS A MEMORIAL AND MONUMENT TO PEACE. IT WAS BUILT AT THE INSTIGATION OF SIR APIRANA NGATA. THE FOUNDATION STONE WAS LAID ON APRIL 25, 1924. THE CHURCH MAYBE COVERS THE PART WHERE THEY SAID WE HAVE TO FIGHT FOR GOD, KING AND THE COUNTRY. THIS CHURCH IS FOR ALL THE NOMINATIONS, BECAUSE THOSE WHO WENT TO WORLD WAR I WERE FROM DIFFERENT LEGIONS. WORLD WAR II SOLDIERS HAVE ALSO BEEN ADDED TO THE MEMORIAL BOARD NOW. TWO YEARS AFTER THE FOUNDATION STONE WAS LAID, GOV GEN SIR CHARLES FERGUSSON AND DIGNITARIES WERE ROCK AND ONTO THE MARAE FOR THE CHURCH'S CONSECRATION. THE CHURCH WAS PREPARED FOR 5000 PEOPLE. THE PRIME MINISTER GORDON COATES, ATTENDED, AND SIR APIRANA NGATA LED THE HAKA. RAY KOHERE IS THE GREAT-NEPHEW OF HENARE KOHERE, WHO WAS LISTED WITH HIS FRIEND SIR APIRANA NGATA. NOT ONLY DID HE HAVE TO LEAVE HIS HOME, HIS WHANAU, HIS THREE CHILDREN AT THAT AGE, BUT HE WAS A LEADER OF THE IWI - NAGIT POROU - IT WAS SOMETHING HE COULDN'T TURN DOWN ANYWAY. I KNOW SIR APIRANA NGATA I ASKED FOR SUPPORT, SO EITHER WAY, HE WOULD HAVE BEEN TORN. HE JOINED HIS YOUNGER BROTHER IN 1915 WITH THE NEW ZEALAND BATTALION. BEFORE HEADING OVERSEAS, HE WROTE A LETTER TO HIS CHILDREN. (READS) ON SEPTEMBER 14, 1916, THE LEADER HENARE KOHERE IS BADLY INJURED. HE IS CARRIED BACK TO HIS DUGOUT. HE WAS STRUCK BY A SHELL THAT EXPLODED ABOVE HIM. HE WAS HIT IN THE GROIN, AND ONE FRAGMENT TRAVELLED UP TO HIS ABDOMEN. HE DIDN'T LIE IMMEDIATELY. HE WAS ALIVE FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS. FOR HIS SCHOOLMATE, PETER BUCK, WHO VISITED HIM AS HE LAID THERE DYING. HE IDENTIFIED HIM AS A LEADER, AND HE WANTED A NGATI POROU LEADER. HENARE DIED IN A FIELD HOSPITAL IN SEPTEMBER 1916. THEY ALWAYS EXPECT TO COME HOME, I THINK. HE MADE THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE, DYING IN FRANCE. ANOTHER MAN WENT TO WAR WITH THE SECOND MURRAY CONTINGENT. CONNECTION WITH HIS TIPUNA. HE IS THE BROTHER OF MY GRANDFATHER WHO WAS THE OLDEST. HE WAS AT THE WESTERN FRONT, DOING THE DANGEROUS WORK OF BUILDING TRENCHES, ROADS AND RAILWAYS, OFTEN UNDER HEAVY FIRE. IN 1917, AT THE SCENE, GERMANS SHELLED THE TRENCH OF CAPT CARR AND HIS MEN. TO DIED AND SEVERAL MORE WERE WOUNDED. HE ORDERED THE WOUNDED TO RETIRE BUT THE OTHERS STAYED BEHIND TO CARRY THE DECEASED MEN. HE WOULD HAVE BEEN SEEN AS BRAVE FOR WHAT HE DID - THAT SHOWS LEADERSHIP. THE GERMANS AGAIN SHELLED, AND HE WAS KILLED. HE WAS 23 YEARS OLD. THE YOUNG MEN IN UNIFORM ARE A REMINDER OF ALL THE MEN WHO SERVED. IT WAS TANGITAPUI. IT WAS AROHA. THEY BROUGHT BACK THE MEMORIES OF SEEING THOSE YOUNG MEN. OUR TUPUNAS WERE OF THAT AGE WHEN THEY WENT. THAT IS THE AROHA PART OF IT. (SPEAKS TE REO MAORI) WALK BACKWARDS INTO THE FUTURE WITH EYES FIXED ON THE PAST. UNIFORMS THE YOUNG MEN WERE DRESSED IN THEIR WERE KINDLY SUPPLIED BY WINGNUT FILMS WITH THEIR MILITARY HISTORIAN DRIVING ALL THE WAY FROM WELLINGTON TO DRESS THE BOYS UP IN TIKITIKI. (SPEAKS TE REO MAORI) JULIAN. KIA ORA. DRIVING ALL THE WAY FROM WELLINGTON WOW. THE DARING AND INGENUITY OF C COMPANY'S TE RAUWHIRO TIBBLE IN NORTHERN ITALY, EARNED HIM A MILITARY CROSS. HE MANHANDLED TWO ANTI-TANK GUNS ACROSS THE SANTERNO RIVER. THEY WERE VITAL SUPPORT THAT HELPED SEND THE GERMANS INTO RETREAT AND BRING WORLD WAR 2 TO A CLOSE. KIM WEBBY HAS HIS STORY. TO RECEIVE THE MILITARY CROSS - NEW ZEALAND MILITARY FORCES. LT TIBBLE DEMONSTRATED RESOURCEFULNESS IN THE ATTACK IN 1945 AND LATER WHEN THE ADVANCE REACHED THE RIVER. DESTROYING WHAT ENEMY GUN AND SETTING FIRE TO A TANK. HE WOULD SAY, RISE AND SHINE, BOYS, TODAY IS A GREAT DAY TO WIN A MEDAL. THAT WAS THE TYPE OF OFFICER HE WAS. HE WAS A CHARMER RATHER THAN SOMEONE FROM THE BACK BARKING COMMANDS. HE WOULD LEAD YOU ALONG AND SAY, COME ON, BOYS. LET'S DO THIS TOGETHER. IN ITALY, THE GERMANS BOMBED BRIDGES TO DELAY THE ALLIES TO THE NORTH. IN C COMPANY'S TWO AFFORDABLE SURGEONS WERE PINNED DOWN BY A GERMAN ANTI-TANK GUN. UNLESS YOU NEUTRALISED THAT GUN, YOU CAN REALLY SEE THEM COMING THROUGH, AND YOU JUST GOT THE MUZZLE TO THE TOP OF THE EMBANKMENT ENOUGH SO YOU COULD FIRE ON THEM. AS A RESULT OF THAT, NEW ZEALANDERS, THE EIGHTH ARMY, THEY WERE ABLE TO GO FORWARD. THE BATTALION SOLDIERS ARE NOW ON THE STOCK BANKS. TO GET THEIR COSTS THE BATTALION THREE DEAD AND SIX WOUNDED. THEN JUST 22 HOURS AFTER CROSSING THE RIVER, GEN FRIBERG ORDERS THE MEN OVER, AND FORWARD 600 M. THIS WOULD BE THE LAST FORMAL ENGAGEMENT BY THE MULTIPLE ITALIAN FOR WORLD WAR II. UNDER ORDERS FROM AN ITALIAN COMMANDER, THE THE LIEUTENANTS INGENUITY COMES TO THE FORE. THE GUNS NEED TO GO ACROSS THE RIVER, AND EACH WAY 600 KG. THE STOCK BACK WAS 20 FOOT HIGH, AND WHAT THEY HAD TO DO WAS LIFT THE GUNS UP OVER THE FIRST STOP BACK THEN WHEN IT GOT OVER THERE IT CROSSED THE RIVER. IN 2023, TIWANA WENT TO SEE FOR HIMSELF WHERE HIS GRANDFATHER'S MILITARY EXPERIENCE TOOK PLACE. THE RIVER IS LOW AND THE HEIGHT OF SUMMER, BUT WHEN LIZ LEFT AND IT WAS THERE, IT WAS HIGH WITH SPRING RAINS. THEY GOT PETROL CANS, DRUMS, MADE A FLOTATION DEVICE. HE WAS ABLE TO USE THOSE SKILLS TO GET A NUMBER EIGHT WIRE RIGHT ACROSS THE RIVER, AND THEY WERE ABLE TO PULL IT WITH THE WAY ACROSS THE RIVER. A STRONG ATTACK BY THE MAORI BATTALION STRIPPED ACROSS THE RIVER LAY HEAVY ARTILLERY BARRAGE. THE MEN THEN DRAG THE GARDEN IS 600 MORE METRES TO TAKE ON THE TIGER TANKS. HE HIT ONE OF THOSE TIGER TANKS. YOU CAN READ HIS BIOGRAPHY. HE SAYS IT IS HARD TO IMAGINE TO TAKE ON A TIGER TANK. THEY ARE SO BIG. THEY ARE AS BIG AS A HOUSE. BIGGER, CLOSER, BIG AS A MOUNTAIN. THE ITALIAN HISTORIAN WHO RECORDS IT SAYS THAT IT WAS A HIGH-RISK SHOT, AND HE HAD AT POINT-BLANK. FROM HERE ON, THEY LIBERATE ITALIAN TOWNS AS THEY CONTINUE NORTH. ANGELINA, IN HER MID-90S, WAS 15 WHEN THE MAORI BATTALION LIBERATED HER TOWN. SHE WAS REALLY HAPPY. WHAT SHE RECALLS IS THAT THERE WERE SOLDIERS OUT THERE THAT HAD A NEW UNIFORM ON, AND THEY WERE BROWN. THEY WERE THE MAORI BATTALION. THIS MAN WAS 14 YEARS OLD WHEN THE MAORI BATTALION LIBERATED HIS TOWN. AMAZING. HE DIED IN 1996. DOESN'T MATTER HOW MANY MEDALS YOU HAVE, OR WHAT RANK YOU ARE. THE MAN. WE ARE BACK AGAIN WITH MONTY. YOU INTERVIEWED HIM IN THE 1990S, WHAT WAS HE LIKE? IMPRESSIVE MAN, ABOVE AVERAGE IN HEIGHT, FINE LOOKING. SOME OF HIS MEN WE INTERVIEWED AS WELL, ONE TOLD US THAT HE WAS THE ULTIMATE GENTLEMAN IN ITALY. ON ONE OCCASION HE HAD A SUBMACHINE GUN, AND WENT DOWN ON ONE KNEE ON THE PAVEMENT IN ITALY, AND SAID HE WAS AT THE ITALIAN'S SERVICE. YOU RECORDED ONE OF THE MEN WHO SERVED UNDER HIS COMMAND? YES, HE WOULD HAVE BEEN 17 OR 18 WHEN HE WAS UNDER THE COMMAND, AND I REMEMBER HIM SPEAKING MAORI - (SPEAKS TE REO) THE LIEUTENANT WOULD HAVE BEEN A STABILISING INFLUENCE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE TAKE A LOOK BACK AT THE DAWN SERVICE HELD HERE IN GISBORNE EARLIER THIS MORNING. THE MAORI BATTALION LEAVE EUROPE. WHAT IS THE PRICE OF CITIZENSHIP? IT IS COMING HOME, BUT NEVER LEAVING THE BATTLEFIELD. IT IS FIGHTING FOR WHAT IS RIGHT SO YOUR CHILDREN DO NOT HAVE TO. IT IS A PRIVILEGE THAT MAORI AND THE NATION CAN BE TRULY PROUD OF. AT ALL THE DAWN SERVICES THAT WERE CARRIED OUT AROUND THE COUNTRY THIS MORNING, THERE ARE COMMON FEATURES AND IMPORTANT TRADITIONAL ELEMENTS WHICH BELONG IN A MILITARY FUNERAL. THE COMMEMORATION HELD HERE IN TAIRAWHITI FOLLOWED THAT TRADITION AND ALSO CONTAIN SOME MOVING AND MEMORABLE ELEMENTS SPECIAL TO THIS REGION. KIA ORA. I AM TREVOR DUKES, PRESIDENT OF THE GISBORNE RSA. THIS YEAR, WE HAVE PULLED TOGETHER A NEW PARADE WHERE WE GATHER AT DAWN. MARCH TO THE DRUMBEAT OF A PIPE BAND AROUND AND ACROSS THE WILLIAM PETTY BRIDGE TO OUR LOCAL CENOTAPH AND GATHER FOR OUR MEMORIAL SERVICE. THE ANZAC DAWN SERVICE TAKES THE FORM OF A MILITARY FUNERAL, CENTRED AROUND THE CENOTAPH, WHICH COMMEMORATES THOSE THAT SERVED AND LOST THEIR LIVES IN TIMES OF CONFLICT. (BELL TOLLS) THE TURN CLOCK STRIKES THE HOUR, AND THE EAST MAN RESCUE TRUST HELICOPTER CONDUCTED A FLY PAST. WHEN IT COMES TO THE FLAGS, THE RULE OF THUMB IS THAT OUR NATIONAL FLAG IS ALWAYS FIRST, LAST OUT. THERE ALL FLOWN AT HALF-MAST AS A SIGN OF MOURNING. DURING BATTLE, THE FLAG REPRESENTS YOUR FEELING OF LOYALTY AND PRIDE SHARED BY YOUR UNIT, SO THEY ARE VERY IMPORTANT SYMBOLS OF HONOUR. I LAY A WREATH ON BEHALF OF THE RSA. AND THE SERVICE TODAY WAS CARRIED OUT BY PADRE PETER KOIA. THEN WE SING THE HEAVEN HOW GREAT THOU ART. IN FIELDS, POPPIES GROW. THERE WAS A MAJOR BATTLE ALONG THE WESTERN FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. 1 MILLION SOLDIERS FROM MORE THAN 50 COUNTRIES WERE WOUNDED, MISSING AND KILLED IN ACTION THERE. THE POPPIES MENTIONED IN THE POEM WERE ONE OF THE FIRST PLANTS TO BLOOM AND GROW ON THE BATTLEFIELDS, AND THE REFERENCE RESULTED IN THE RED POPPY BECOMING ONE OF THE MOST RECOGNISED MEMORIAL SYMBOLS FOR THE SOLDIERS WHO WERE LOST IN BATTLE. TODAY IN GISBORNE, THE COMMANDER SPOKE ABOUT THE ACTIONS OF THE ANZACS. AT THIS POINT, IN THE SILENCE, YOU HEAR THE SOUND OF A TRENCH WHISTLE BEING BLOWN. (WHISTLE BLOWS) NOW, THIS IS THE SIGNAL THAT WAS GIVEN TO THE SOLDIERS AS THEY AWAITED, READY TO ADVANCE ON THE ENEMY. FOR MANY OF THEM, THIS WHISTLE WILL BE THE LAST THING THEY EVER HEAR AS THEY ARE DIRECTED OVER THE TOP, INTO THE FACE OF THE ENEMY. (THE LAST POST PLAYS) THE LAST POST IS ONE OF THE MOST DISTINCTIVE MELODIES IN THE WORLD. ORIGINALLY, IT WAS A SIGNAL, SOUNDING THAT THE FINAL CENTURY POST IN THE MILITARY CAN HAD BEEN INSPECTED, AND THE AREA WAS SECURE FOR THE NIGHT. IN THE DORM SERVICE, IT SIGNIFIES REMEMBRANCE FOR ALL OF THOSE WHO DID NOT RETURN TO NEW ZEALAND. THAT WAS FOLLOWED BY A VOLLEY OF GUNFIRE. THE GUNFIRE WAS FOUNDED BY A TRENCH MORTAR, OPERATED BY THE LOCAL HISTORIC MILITARY GROUP. THE SOUND OF THE CANON ECHOES THROUGH THE THREE ADJOINING RIVERS AND CAN BE HEARD IN ALL QUARTERS OF THE CITY. (GUNSHOT RINGS) THE ODOURS TAKEN FROM THE POEM, FOR THE FALLEN, *ODE IS TAKEN AND IT IS A SIGN OF COMMEMORATION ALL AROUND THE COUNTRY. (SPEAKS TE REO MAORI) THE REVEILLE BREAKS THE ONE-MINUTE SILENCE, PLAYED ON BUGLE, WAS THE TRADITIONAL WAKE-UP CALL FOR SOLDIERS. TODAY AT THE DORM SERVICE IT IS A REMINDER TO THOSE PRESENT THAT LIFE GOES ON FOR SOME THE RAISING OF THE FLAGS ALSO SYMBOLISES TO ACTIVE SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN THAT THE DUTY CONTINUES. THE REVEILLE WAS FOUNDED BY BUGLER GRANT PARIS. THE LIVE EVENT PLAYED BY PIPER AND THE BENEDICTION DELIVERED BY THE PADRE. THE LORD MAKE HIS FACE SHINE UPON YOU AND BE GRACIOUS UNTO YOU. (BAGPIPES PLAY) AND AS ALWAYS, WE HAVE A STELLAR LINE UP FOR YOU THROUGHOUT THIS ANZAC DAY. WE WILL CROSS TWO ANZAC COVE AT THE GALLIPOLI PENINSULA FOR THE COMMEMORATION DAWN SERVICE IN THE REPUBLIC OF TURKEY. AFTER THAT, THERE IS A PREMIER OF LAST MAN STANDING. ONE MAN FROM THE MURRAY BATTALION AND HIS GRANDCHILDREN TAKE A JOURNEY TO ITALY TO VISIT THE GRAVES OF HIS FALLEN COMRADES ONE LAST TIME. AND THEN THE SPECIAL CAREER OF SHOOTER OF WAR WHERE THE HEROIC AND TRAGIC STORIES BEHIND THE SECRET WORLD WAR II PHOTOS AND DIARY OF MAORI BATTALION LIFE IN WORLD WAR II ARE REVEALED. THAT IS ALL FROM US HERE AT AUCKLAND, AND GISBORNE. THANK YOU FOR WATCHING THE WHAKAATA MAORI COVERAGE TODAY, AND PLEASE KEEP WATCHING OUR COVERAGE TODAY AS WE REFLECT, REMEMBER AND RECALL THE SACRIFICES OF MANY TODAY. TENA KOE. (SPEAKS TE REO MAORI) OUR THANKS TO OUR BROADCAST PARTNERS TODAY, INCLUDING, OF COURSE, WE HAD SKY TV, SKY OPEN AND NEWSHUB DISCOVERY AS WELL AS STUFF, NZME, RNZ, AND THE PACIFIC NETWORK AS WELL. THANK YOU AS WELL TO OUR HISTORIAN FOR HIS INSIGHTS TODAY. AND ALSO THANKS TO OUR TEAMS IN AUCKLAND AND HERE IN GISBORNE. AND KAIMAHI BACK AT BASE. WE LEAVE YOU NOW WITH A SPECIAL WAIATA WRITTEN ESPECIALLY FOR THIS ANZAC DAY. IT IS CALLED THEIR STORIES. (SPEAKS TE REO MAORI) TIHEI MAURI ORA. (ACOUSTIC MUSIC) # WE WEAR POPPIES ON OUR SHIRTS # TO REMEMBER LOVED ONES LOST. # THE COLOUR RED STANDS OUT PROUD # FOR THE BLOOD OUR PEOPLE SHED. # OOH. # AH. # OOH. # GUNSHOTS FIRED, HIT THE GROUND. # THE FAMILIES HOME, SAFE AND SOUND. # 18 YEARS YOUNG, FEW DAYS A MAN. # A MAMA'S BOY, NOT AS SHE PLANNED. # OOH. # AH. # BRAVE HEARTS OF OUR PEOPLE # WILL NEVER BE LOST. # WE STAND STRONG FOR AOTEAROA. # THESE STORIES WON'T DIE. # FIGHTING FOR LIFE BOTH LOST AND FOUND. # OUR TIPUNA WATCHING FROM THE CLOUDS. # THIS IS A WAR TO END ALL WARS. # IF ONLY THAT WAS THE END OF IT ALL. # THERE IS NO MORE IN BATTLE # WITH THE BLOOD THAT IT CAUSED. # WAS THE GLORY WORTH THE PAIN? # WITH THE HEARTACHE? # STAND STRONG FOR AOTEAROA. # THE STORIES WON'T DIE OUT.