As mark of respect for the fallen the Ode is recited at all NZ RSA’s. Ours is done 7pm sharp on all nights. When this happens the lights are extinguished and we ask you to stand, face the remembrance light and remain silent for this time.

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.

E kore ratou e koroheketia
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.

The Ode comes from For the Fallen, a poem by the English poet and writer Laurence Binyon and was published in London in the Winnowing Fan; Poems of the Great War, in 1914.
 

    Memorial Garden Avondale RSA