Join us in a Roaring Chorus.
The Hokitika Westland RSA will be parading at our WWI Memorial on Cass Square on Armistice Day.
Sequence of Events:
- 11.00am Two Minute Silence
- Roaring Chorus - fire volleys with black powder and simulated rounds from a local collectors AA weapon; Black Powder Club will be firing a cannon and a mortar in the vicinity of the town; Fire, and Ambulance will sound their sirens; Westland industrial Heritage Park will sound their sirens.
Make a noise with your bells, whistles, sirens, pots & pans, horns and instruments!
Why? To celebrate the signing of the truce to end The Great War at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918.
