HAURAKI REGIMENT.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5433, 10 June 1929, Page 3

HAURAKI REGIMENT.

NEW COLOURS PROPOSED. CAMP FOR PAEROA. During the course of the explaining of the Borough Council’s unemployment scheme at the Community “Sing” on Thursday night, Cr. E. fcdwards said that the trustees of the Returned Soldiers’ Club had decided to purchase with the £l5O of funds they had still avail&ble a new set of Colours for the Hauraki Regiment in place of the old ones, which were dilapidated and so perished that they could not be taken on parade. As the public in the first place were largely responsible in donating these funds, it was decided when offering the Colours to make it a proviso that the whole regiment must camp near Paeroa. The Defence Department had agreed, and the new Colours would be presented at a camp to be held not later than next February. The unveiling of the WaiMemorial would coincide with this. It was hoped that there would be present on the occasion—which would be a red-letter day for Paeroa—the Gov-ernor-General, the Archbishop, the General Officer Commanding N.Z. Forces, and Major-General Sir Andrew Russell. Trains would probably be arranged from Tauranga, Rotorua, Morrinsville, and all the places from whence the regiment drew its members. With the 700-odd men in camp near Paeroa the town would benefit greatly financially. Nearly all the business people would benefit by the calls of the eomisseriat, and if each man spent only £1 in the town it would mean at least £7OO. Cr. Edwards thought beyond a shadow of doubt that by combination and co-operation the council’s scheme could be carried out and work found for the unemployed. Also it was incumbent to remove the . eight-year-old stigma about the War Memorial and erect it, thereby providing work for the unemployed. They would get the camp in Paeroa and make the memorial unveiling and presentation of Colours day a red-letter one for Paeroa. In conclusion Cr. Edwards put as a watchword, “Let us all be really enthusiastic.”