WARM GRATITUDE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 134, 8 June 1937, Page 10

WARM GRATITUDE

♦— —: PALMERSTON NORTH R.S.A. GIFT AND TESTIMONIAL TO CITY (Special to the "Evening Post.") PALMEKSTON N., This Day.

As a reminder of their gratitude to che citizens of Palmerston North and district for help given to ex-servicemen during the 21 years since the R.S.A. was formed, the Palmerston North branch of the association has made a gift to tha city of a children's paddling pool, to be constructed at the Esplanade. A large number of exservicemen met the City Council last evening, and the president, Mr. B. J. Jacobs, not only expressed the gratitude of the men but, in addition to announcing the gift, handed the Mayor a script address bound in blue morocco leather, which stated, inter alia: "This memorial will not only indicate to those who follow us that without the sympathetic co-operation of our fellow-citizens, we could not, as an association, have achieved that measure of success which has fallen to our lot, but will also provide r. permanent record of our belief that we have receive '. at the hands of our fellowcitizens in sympathy, in confidence, and general help perhaps our greatest reward for any lervice we may have given overseas." In no other part of the Dominion had the returned soldier been treated so generously as in Palmerston North, Mr. Jacobs declared. In accepting the gift, the Mayor (Mr. A. E. Mansford)said it was a splendid gesture and would bear testimony to the good-fellowship that existed between members of the association and citizens.