MEMORIAL TO FALLEN SOLDIERS.
DISCUSSION,AT BEKtt.A.JIPOKE.' -• 1 -Residents of JJerhaiiipore mot last even-, lug ;u the.Masonic Hall- lo- decide upon ii suitable memori-.il to the liillen soldiers of the district. Mr.- r. Dennett -presided over a small attendance. H'o-Stated that' they could, not .do too muclv for. thoso who had made the supreme sacrifice in the war, nor yet for the returned men. Mr. 13, • AVarivici;. (hon.-secretary pro tem) said it had been sugested that tliey should build a .memorial hall, but. tin) estimated eost,..of j;:>000.-ho thought, was. beyond them.. Thosc-who weru. interest-, ing themselves in the matter, wore of the opinion that-, the memorial: should, take, the i'ornxof un obeksk.cbsting from JJIOO. t0:,J5i00.. , ; , ' . Major Maihiesoii was. certain, the-at-, tendance was 110 criterion of the interest, taken in;.the.-matter by the people of the district. He ' suggested that, they'should erect a.-Eoll of Honour in .(tip Berlininpore School, and that they should civ' operate • in'the matter with the South Wellington School, l'n ndilition,. . lie thought thfrd should be a monument to the rfailen . men—nothing big, but 'a chaste, simple memorial. .
- Colonel' Mitchell) M.P., stated that roine time ago senior, officprfe of the N-.Z.E.I'V met. in Wellington and decided to urge the Government to concentrate on a national, memorial for . the whole -Do-minion,"-to be set up in WrtUiiigton. Local memorials also be set up, but they should be made really worth' while. He* suggested that'they ] appoint a small committee to get in-touch-with Newtown and South Wellington and other districts •around''to see what could be done for the district as' a. whole. "
A suggestion 'was made that the City Council should be askcxl to subsidise the' erection of a shelter at-Dupbn Street; with n.. flag pole on it,- nud « memorial' trtbleb'dt 'eitlier'ond : fif i the 'shelter:'; "'"' l
.After further "discussion, : -it was re-; solved - that, all . present be constituted. a', committee.' -with power f to-''add' '-to the number. Mr. AVarwick was appointed convener. ■ >
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 144, 13 March 1920, Page 6
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319MEMORIAL TO FALLEN SOLDIERS. Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 144, 13 March 1920, Page 6
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