MARSLAND HILL MEMORIALS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 14, 11 July 1911, Page 4

MARSLAND HILL MEMORIALS

HANDED TO THE BOROUGH COUNCIL. Messrs. E. Dockrill (chairman) and C. E. Bellringer (secretary), on behalf of the South African Memorial Committee, had n letter belore the Borough Council last night, asking the Council to take charge of the memorial fountain erected on Marsland Hill in memory of the Taranaki men who fell in the South African war. All the liabilities, the letter stated, had been defrayed by the committee, and they trusted that the Council would accept the same on behalf of the citizens. They also asked the Council to undertake the care of the pom-pom gun alongside the fountain. The Defence Department wrote that whilst the gun was to be placed in charge of the Mayor and Borough Council it was to be and rt-.main the property of the Crown, but to be retained at New Plymouth.

Mr. S. Percy-Smitlh, on behalf of the Marsland Hill Memorial Committee, asked the Council to take oyer the monument erected to the memory of those of His Majesty's naval and military forces who fell during the Maori wars. There was a small balance of between £8 and £0 which the committee' proposed to place to the credit of the Mayor and town clerk in the saving* bank to form the nucleus of a fund for any repairs that might in future be necessary-.

Upon the motion of Hie deputv-Mnvor, it was decided tlmt the Council accept the care bf the memorials, upon the Reserves Committee reporting that they were in order.