The second Anzac Day commemoration dinner, held at the Town Hall on Saturday night under the auspices of the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Patriotic Society, proved in every way a great success. The great hall had been very tastefully decorated for the occasion with large Hags of the Allies and gay festoons of bunting; the long tables were laden with good things; the orchestra was occupied by the Patriotic Society's Band, which, under the able conductorship of Bandmaster Jupp, briefly rendered a stirring selection of patriotic airs; and by kind permission of Mr Walter Fuller a number of artists from His Majesty's Theatre contributed greatly to the harmony and the hilarity of the evening.

Mr T. M. Wilford, M.P. (chairman of the Patriotic Society) presided over a gathering of sonic 400 returned soldiers, men of the Royal Navy, and civilians, among those present being the Mayor (Mr J. P. Luke), the Hon. Arthur M. Myers (Acting-Finance Minister and Minister for Munitions and Supplies), the Hon. G. W, Rissell (Minister for Public Health, Infernal Affairs, and Marine), His Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout), His Honour Sir John Denniston, lis Honour Mr Justice Cooper, Colonel Hughes, D.S.O. (of the Canterbury Battalion), Colonel Porter, C.B. (officer commanding National Resservis), Mr J. B. Harcourt (president of he Navy League), Mr L. O. H. Trpp (president of the War Relief Commitee), and Mr A. H. Hindmarsh, M.?.

Apologies for unavoidable abserce were received from the Hon. A. L. Herdman (Attorney-General), the Hon. W. D. S. MacDonald (Minister for Agriculture and Commerce), Surgeon-General Henderson (Director-General of Medical Services), and others.