WAR MEMORIALS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 57, 2 December 1946, Page 4

WAR MEMORIALS

INDIVIDUAL DISTRICT’S efforts

COUNTY COUNCIL’S OPINION

There is every indication that the various Patriotic districts in the Whakatane County will desire to erect ©r provide their own type of War Memorial. This fact emerged from a discussion at the County Council meeting last week, when a letter from the Internal Affairs Department offered a Government subsidy of £1 for £3, providing the Memorials under consideration were of a type suitable to serve as a Community Centre.

The Chairman (Mr J. L. Burnett) expressed regret that the Memorials were pinned down to any onte type before Government assistance could be claimed. He wondered also, whether the County was prepared to make a common effort, or to split up into various self-contained communities. Cr McGougan: That is what is intended. They want to build their own. The Chairman: That means that if six centres desire to erect their individual War Memorials, they must all build along the lines of Community Centres before the Government will recognise them sufficiently to give a subsidy. The County Clerk: Yes. ’ Cr Hunter said that the feeling at Edgecumbe was that every district which had raised funds for Patriotic purposes should erect their individual Memorials, whether they fell in line with the Government suggestion or not. They were only awaiting a common lead. The Council decided to hold the whole matter in abeyance until next meeting.