WANGANUI WAR MEMORIAL.
* CLAIM FOR PAYMENT. (PBSSS ASSOCIATION TELEGBAM.) WANGANUI, November 21. When the balance-sheet was published on the completion of the city's war memorial tower on Durie Hill, the name of Mr W. J. Poison was shown as the giver of the land on which the tower was built. After three years the matter was given a new aspect to-day when Mr Poison and another claimed £413 from Mr Hope Gibbons, a former Mayor of Wanganui, for the land which, it was stated, was not a'gift, but was sold, Mr Gibbons allegedly having given an undertaking to accept personal responsibility for tho amount. Mr Gibbons was a member of the Memorial Committee. Mr Justice Ostler reserved his decision.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19164, 22 November 1927, Page 14
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119WANGANUI WAR MEMORIAL. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19164, 22 November 1927, Page 14
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