PROPOSED ALLOTMENT

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 56, 3 September 1926, Page 8

PROPOSED ALLOTMENT

WAR MEMORIAL CARILLON SIX FOR N.Z.E.F UNITS ' ALL N.-OF-K. APPLICATIONS GRANTED. After the fullest inquiry into the various applications for bells and considerable negotiation in relation to some of them, the General Committeo of the •Wellington War ' Memorial Carillon Society has unanimously agreed to a proposed scheme of allotment, but, in orderto givo any dissatisfied applicant an opportunity of lodging ah ob- • jeetion and having his case hoard, tho committeo has decided to postpono making tho final allotment for 'a wock or ten days. Having received no less than 7.7 applications: within one week for tho 49 bells available, the committee was confronted with no small difficulty in making an allotment, but in its proposals it has endeavoured to do this by conceding all next-of-kin claims and applications by N.Z.E.F. units, and by merging other interests in bigger bells than they individually "applied for. „THE POLICY PURSUED v ■ This policy of 4 amalgamation was specially applied to No. 4 bell (£868) which was reserved for the purposo, and thus quite a number of interests have been enabled to be identified with this fine memorial which otherwise the committee would havo been unable to satisfy. . • 'The committee was presented with; a similar problem in regard to the applications for district bells, no less than five of which wero received. While the committee was deeply sensible to the commendable spirit thus manifested and would have liked very much to grant each. of these districts a separate bell, it found-that to do so it would have had to shut out a certain number of next-of-kin applications, the granting of .which would afford, some consolation to the bereaved. Taking a long viow.of the separate • applications, from Lower Hutt and Petone, the committee considered that the day might not bo very far distant ,when the whole of the Hutt Valley will be merged in one district, and. as under this some parts may Ipso their present identity, it proposes that these two applications should be merg-ed-into one bell (No. 10, £312), to be called the Hutt Valley Bell. Similarly it recommends that the applications from (1) Lyallßay; (2) Brooklyn, Vogeltown, and. Morning.on; and (3) Ha-: taitai-should be merged into the next bell (No! 11, £269), the two bells from the five districts thus being placed together and leaving room for satisfying, the claims of three other applicants. The. committee hopes that this solution will: appeal to,the subscribers of these dis-tricts-as being the best possible of a difficult position, . and will meet with their wishes. , In the proposed.scheme of allotment 33' bells have been allotted to next-of-kin in the hope, as previously indicated,; that these' bells will be some consolation 'to ' them in their bereavement. All those granted are in respect of men killed in action, died of wounds or disease, and in this connection it is. specially: worthy of note that one is in.respect of three sons, one: of. three brothers, three in each ease of two sons, two in each case of two brothers, and 'one of two sons-in-law. Six bells have been allotted to N.Z. E.F; units. These which represent "battle honours," the last tribute of units to their fallen comrades, are all in a group, and thus preserve the tradition of common service together in tho field. . CONSIDERATE APPLICANTS. In addition the society received £250 from the Bank of Now Zealand towards the general carillon fund, and offers of bells, if such proved available, from the' Wellington Commercial Travellers' Club, the Wellington Automobile Club, and the staff of Messrs. Sargood,. Son, and Ewen (£6O). Mr. G.'Shirtcliffo also generously offered to'-provide No. 8 bell (£451) in memory of tho staff, of Messrs. A. S. .?aterson and Co., Ltd., who fell, but very considerately waived his application for.this in order that the whole of the Public' Service could be joined together in one bell. • Offers' of separate bells were likewise received' from Messrs. John Chambers and' Son and J. Ilott, Ltd., but these firms very generously offered to merge their • contributions into No.- 4 bell (business houses of Wellington). In the proposed allotment it has been found necessary to transfer various bells, and it is hoped that the scheme will receive Jthe approval of. both the subscribers and of the general public, SCHEME OF ALLOTMENT. The proposed scheme of allotment is as follows:— ■No. 1 (£1440): First patron's bell, Mr. L. P Blundell (in memory of tho 1700 men •of Wellington City and suburbs who fell). 'No. 2 (£1215): First president's. and vice-presidents' bell, Sir Harold Beauchamp and Messrs. G. Shirtcliffc,- S. Kirkcaldie, Hope Gibbons, L. O. H. Tripp, C. J. B. Norwood, T. S. Weston, and J. M.'Geddis. No. 3 (£1040): Business houses of Wellington (list of subscribers to be published later). No. 4 (£868): Subject to their consent being, obtained,, amounts placed against their names being the prices of the bells they applied for: Messrs P. and J/ G. Smith (£269), Messrs. ,' G. F. and F. W. London (£156), Wellington Musicians' Society (£100), Newspaper Proprietors and ' Master Printers (£100), St. John's Ambulance Association (£6O), Oriental Football Club (£3O), Mr. Hamilton Nimnio ' (£3O), Tucker family, Palmerston North (£3O), Loyal Orange Lodge (£4O), U.1.0.0.F., R.A.0.8., A.O.F. .. No. 5 (£711): Mr. William Brown as next-of-kin. No. 6 (£598): Messrs. Blundell Bros., .Ltd. No. 7 (£538): Reserved for British Mercantile Marine (£375 already subscribed). No. 8 (£451): The Public Service (including the Railway Department and tho Police Department), the Postal and Telegraph Dopartment, and the Government Printing Office. No. 9 (£382): Sir Harold Bcauchamp M next-of-kin. No. 10 (£312): Hutt Valley bell • (Lower Hutt and Petone). No. 11 (£269): Combined districts of '(?.) Xiyall Ray? (2) Brooklyn, Mornington, and Vogclton, and (3) Hataitai. No. 12 (£317)): Mr. H. P. Rawson, as next-of-kin. No. 13 (£182): Mrs. M. A. Tattle, as next-of-k.;n. . N.21.E.F. BELLS. No. 14 (£156): Wellington division. B.M.A. No 15 (£130): New Zealand Nnrwss. No. 16 (£108): N.Z. Rifle Brigade. No. 17 (£95): D Battery, N.Z.F.A. No. 18 (£87): Ist Battalion Wellington Regiment. N0.'19 (£70): N.Z. Permanent Forces NEXT-OF-KIN. The following are all next-of-kin bells:— No. 20 (£60): Mrs, Frances Lovy. No. 21 (£52): Mr. E. H. Bracey. No. 22 (£44): Mrs. Doughty, 116 Oriental parade. No. 23 (£40): Mrs. Davies, Ower street.

No. 24 (£35): Mr. and Mrs. Frank Marshall, 13, Overtoun terrace, Hataitai. No. 25 (£30): Mr. J. G. Findlay, Packakariki. No. 2(5 (£30): Mr. G. H. Hall, Main road, Lower Hutt. No. 27 (£30): Misses Tanner. . No. 2S (£30): Mrs. H. M. Barnard, 201, Derwent stre6t. .No. 29 (£30): Mrs. Talbot, 54, Tirangi road, Kilbirnio. No. 30 (£30): Mrs. I. Co.ick, IG, Murphy street. No. 31 (£30): Dr. Simpson, Kelburn. No. 32 (£30): Mr. S. E. Lambert, care of Duthio and Co. No. 33 (£30): Mr. Edward E. Lewis, 54, Munro street. No. 34 (£30): Mr. J; M'Hardic, messenger, Parliamentary Buildings. No. 35 (£30): Mr. R. A. Webb, per C. E. Webb, 96, Hataitai road. No. 36 (£30): Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Allen, 31 Matai road, Hataitai. No. 37 (£30): Mr. and. Mrs. N. G. Do Cent, 85, Major-banks street. No. 38 (£30): Mr. and Mrs. Phil. Bennett, Seatoun. No. 39 (£30): Mrs. Nias, Upper Willis street. No. 40 (£30): Mrs. E. Butler, 130, Wallace street. No. 41 (£30): Misses A. E. and F. C. Johnson, Avon street. No. 42 (£30): Mr. Andrew Collins, 39, Melbourne road. No. 43 (£30): Mrs. Annie Anderson, 194, Willis Stroet. . ' No. 44 (£30):-Mrs. Clark and Miss Keasbury. No. 45 (£30): Mrs. J. E. Ward, Oriental Bay). , No. 46 (£30): Mr. C. Holmes, 30, Kelburn parade. No. 47. (£30): Mrs. B. Cook, Johnsonville. ' No. 48 (£30): Mrs. C. H.T. Skelloy, Day's Bay. ' . No. 49 '(£3O). .Mrs. N.- Stuart, Hill street. ■„■.