ACROSS THE COUNTRY, WE REMEMBER THEM

• Published date: 26 April 2024
• Author: Georgina Campbell
• Publication title: New Zealand Herald, The (Auckland, New Zealand)

Meanwhile, in New Plymouth, people attending the dawn service banded together to lift and move a car that was in the way of Anzac Day proceedings

But some stark messages were delivered this Anzac Day. One was from Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters, who used his speech at Gallipoli to say: “We live in a troubled world, the worst in memory.”

The world has emerged from the global pandemic more divided, said Peters, who is also Foreign Affairs Minister. Regional instabilities and the chaos they create threaten the security of too many, he said.

“It took Winston Churchill nearly 40 years after the fighting waged across this peninsula, right here, and a second world war, to learn from Gallipoli’s experience to declare, ‘To jaw, jaw is better than war, war.’

“It was true then. It is true now. Never has diplomacy been more needed to de-escalate conflicts and ease tensions.”

In Wellington, strong winds resulted in the National Anzac Day Commemoration Service being cancelled out of concern for the health and safety of veterans, visitors...