PAPATOETOE MEMORIAL.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 638, 3 June 1921, Page 11

PAPATOETOE MEMORIAL.

DESIGN APPROVED, Some fifty subscribers to the Papa. toe too district war memorial met in the local town hall last Fiiday evening to consider the report of the committee set up to go into the question of designs and prices of the “Gates of Honour”, decided upon at the last meeting of subscribers held on April S. Mr Arthur W,. Hall presided. , A very suitable design in stone with suitable pillars and an arch was submitted by Mr Larsen, architect. Mr Larsen, who was a member of the special committee, addressed the meeting. He stated that the site decided upon by the committee-was on the corner of Station Road and the Great South Road. Describing the design, he said "that the piers were set eighteen feet back from the road and were 4 feet square; they were just over fourteen feet high, and stood ten feet apart. There was a height of 9 feet from the. ground to the springing of the arch. He sug-

nested that the base be laic} in dressed bluestone and the coping- in ‘cl arkcoloured Oamam stone. The estimated cost was £403. Mr Larsen added that there would probably be no cost of carting, as Messrs Burnside Bros, hack offered to cart the stone- -about twenty-five tons, free. < Hear, hear). An offer of half a ton of cement was made by Mr George Foster builder and contractor, and £lO by Mr George W. Smith. Offers amounting in Ml to £55 Os 6(1, were made by subscribers. A motion that the desum he accepted, providing the money could be raised, was carried unanimously. Four subscribers offered their services to canvass the district for subscriptions, and were formed into a committee to make the necessary arrangements. Votes of thanks were accorded Messrs Burnside Bros, for their offer, and Mr Larsen for the design he submitted and his work in connection with obtaining estimates.

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