HEROES HONORED.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 August 1920, Page 8

HEROES HONORED.

MEMORIAL AT BELL* BLOCK. THE .MEANING OF SACRIFICE. A special service for >t hi dedication nf a war memOrifil tablot, and also a tftfrlet to the memory of the late Mrs. J. Rowe, was held in St. Luke s Chuich, Bell Block, yesterday, the_ Rev. G. Gavin, of Waitara, officiating. The : church, was crowded. The handsome tablet, erected by the congregation of the church to tile memory of the men of Bell Block wlft> male the supreme sacrifice in the great war. contained the following names: Serjeant A. E. Dustuw, Lance-Corporal K. E. Corbett, Private A.' E. C. Barriball, Trooper A. Bishop, Sergeant S. Hoby, Private V. Holmes, Sergeant G. Jeffrey, and Trooper C. Street. The tablet to the late.Mra._ Rowe was erected by friends and relations in recognition of services rendered by that lady for upwards of 50 years in the Bell Block parish. ■ The Rev. Gsyin spoke'eulogistioally of the services of those whose names were perpetuated by the tablet. He said that while everyone present mourned the loss of those brave men and that good woman, the late Mrs. Rowe, yet there was sometimes a reason in death. Sometimes the death of a person did more good to the world than a lifetime of service. instance, had not Captain Fryatt been murdered by a pittiless foe, and had he been to-day on the bridge of his ship he would have been already forgotten, and his great example lost to the world. The death of Nurse Cavell provided a still more striking example of the undying good that may follow in the wake of grim death. Had that heroine returned to England and not perpetuated her memory by her last heroic stand, we should have already lost the value of her memory. He asked those who were gathered in the church in the cause of sacred memory, not to think that those valuable lives that they mourned were given for nothing. Their memory would live for all time, and be an inspiration to the generations to come. They had perform- ' ed a great duty in life, and in death they had set up a tradition from which those" left behind would be inspired to follow the' path of duty when the need arose. At the conclusion of the service, a tea, arranged by the ladies' committee of the parish, ivas held in the hall for the joint purposes V bringing the parish together and welconfLng the new vicar, the Rev. G. T. Beale.