The Returned and Services Association (RSA) is denouncing the thieves who stole brass plaques from the graves of soldiers in Dargaville this week.
Police said three plaques had been prised off granite headstones in the Dargaville RSA cemetery - probably to sell the brass as scrap metal.
The RSA said the thefts would be upsetting for families - and the people responsible have stooped to a new low.
Changing the New Zealand flag will not undermine the memory of soldiers who fought overseas, Prime Minister John Key has told the Returned and Service Association.
The Returned Services' Association has launched an online wing - the National Association - in an attempt to get more people joining up.
The president of the Christchurch Returned and Services Association is disappointed the cenotaph in Cathedral Square is still out of bounds following the February quake in 2011.
Twenty-five youth ambassadors are to be selected to attend Anzac Day commemorations at Gallipoli next year to mark the centenary of the ill-fated campaign.
The departure of hundreds of enthusiastic young recruits, who marched off to do battle in the First World War a century ago, was recreated in Nelson on Saturday.
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