SCHOOL WAR MEMORIAL

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 164, 5 April 1919, Page 9

SCHOOL WAR MEMORIAL

TERRACE EX-PUPILS' ASSOCIATION. A meeting of ex-pupils of the Terrace School was held on Thursday evening to receive an interim report from the Executive Committee in connection with tho proposed war memorial to be orected in the school grounds to commemorate the wa.' services rendered by ex-pupils of tho school. Mr. P. ,1. Evans was in the chair.

The secretary (Mr. Hack) reported that the main jv'urk of the committee so far .had been in compiling lists of names of old scholars prior to 1901, tho school with all its registers having been burnt that year. Circulars had been sent out stating tho object of the movement, and the reception that the proposal had received encouraged (he committee in hoping that the sum of .£IOOO would bo quite easily realised to carry.out (ho work. Tho committee had visited tho school, and had discussed with the lieadmaster, Mr. M'Morrnn, suggested sites for the proposed memorial. A bank account had been opened, end nil funds are being deposited to tho credit of the Terrace School Association in tho meantime. In a general discussion which followed Mr. R. C. Renner suggested that tho momorial should take the form of a book containing tho names of those who had rendered war services, and at the same time given an annual prize to the best pupil in the school. Other opinions were expressed as to what form the momorial should take, and eventually it was proposed by Mr. E. Wylie and seconded by Mr. Doiilon and carried, that, the form of the memorial bo deferred until such time as the'committee had collected sufficient funds, and that a meeting should then be convened of all subscribers to discuss and determine tho form of the memorial. Soveral of the ladies present signified their willingness to help in the movement, and a Ladies' Committee, consisting of Mrs. Rennie, Mrs. Giesen, Mrs. U. W. Korslev, Mrs. C. E. Fordham, and Misses Eraser, Van Stavercn, Raph'.v, Hayes. Pope, M'Coll (2), Turnbull (2), and Ballingor, was set up. to work in conjunction with the executive.