KILBIRNIE SCHOOL'S ROLL OF HONOUR

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2809, 29 June 1916, Page 6

KILBIRNIE SCHOOL'S ROLL OF HONOUR

UNVEILED BY DR. NEWMAN. The Kilbirnie State School Roll of Honour was unveiled at Kilbirnie School at 3 p.m. yesterday. Tho Roll contains 75 names, among which aro included those of Nnrso Brandon (serving , in Samoa), Nurse Worboys (serving at tho front). Major R, Price, and Privates E. Fisher and J. Keesbury (killed in action), and Sergeant H. Fear, who has been awarded the D.C.M. Dr. Newman, M.P., officiated at the unveiling ' ceremony, and said he was glad he had Won able to come out to unveil the Roll. The Kilbirnie School had done very well indeed in having so many representatives at the front.' There would always be war,'he said, and /the school children of to-day should join the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts, and get ready for the time vdien they too, perhaps, would be called on in after years. Many people pessimistically thought that tho present war would never end, but he himself believed that it would soon end, and that during the next , two weeks or so the newspapers would to recording great doings m tho war zone. He concluded with the hope that God would bless tho boys at present away fighting, give them honours moro than they now had, and bring them safely back to u«. A bazaar was also held in the school in conjunction with the unveiling, the articles on sale having been made and donated by the ohildren. An amount of MS was raised in this way, and is to be donated to the Wounded Soldiers' Fund.