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March 21, 2012

Help Sought for National War Memorial Anniversary

Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Manatū Taonga

The National War Memorial is about to turn 80 and needs a helping hand to help mark the occasion.

A major renovation is currently under way at the memorial as the Wellington landmark prepares for its 80th anniversary on Anzac Day next month.

Scaffolding has been erected to enable workers to carry out an extensive maintenance programme.

While the memorial is under wraps, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage is seeking your help for an exhibition to commemorate the key milestone.

We are asking you to send us any photographs you may have taken at the memorial in Buckle St over the past eight decades.

We’re looking for photographs of personal visits, significant occasions or just the memorial itself.

The photos will be displayed on our website, www.mch.govt.nz, and also included in an exhibition at the National War Memorial, that will open on Saturday, April 28.

National War Memorial photographic exhibition
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
PO Box 5364
Wellington 6011

Please don’t forget to include your name and address so we can return photographs to you. Details of when the images were taken and any other relevant detail would also be much appreciated.

We need to receive photographs by Friday, April 20.

Meanwhile, planning is well under way for a special Anzac Day programme at the National War Memorial.
Included will be performance of the carillon programme played at the memorial’s opening in 1932.

For more information on the National War Memorial see: www.mch.govt.nz/nz-identity-heritage/national-war-memorial

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