BUCKLAND.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 447, 4 February 1919, Page 3

BUCKLAND.

WAR MEMORIAL, AND PEACE °ELE££^!?ONS. A weii attended public meeting was Lsld in the Public Hall, Buckland, last Friday evening for the purpose of taking steps towards the provision of some form of war memorial and also for making suitable arrangements for celebrating the declaration of peace in due course. Mr E. Allan presided. The feeling of the meeting was that some lasting memorial should be erected in Buckland, most favour being given for the memorial to take the form of a granite obelisk with a drinking trough for cattle attached A resolution to that effect was carried and a Committee was set up to make enquiries as to cost, site, etc , and to report to a later meeting. It was considered that the mi iiKrial should bo subscribed for by the people and tb at it was undesirable for the County Council to vote any sum from the County funds towards any central memorial, Buckland preferring to have its own memorial. A Committee was appointed to organise a sports gathering as a peace celebration, the date not to cl.ish with that in Pukekohe. The old Reception and Farewell Committee was re elected to organise receptions to returning sol liers The Buckland Flower Show and Industrial Exhibition, which was postponed from November owing to the influenza epidemic, is to be held next Friday and Saturday in the Public Hall, and the opening ceremony will be performed by Mr R. F. Bollard, M.P.