WAR MEMORIAL UNVEILED.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 268, 12 November 1928, Page 5

WAR MEMORIAL UNVEILED.

WHAKATANE SCHOOL.

IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

WHAKATANE, this day,

The ceremony of unveiling the Whakatane school's war memorial, a flagstaff, took place yesterday, before about 500 people from all parts of the district. A religious service was conducted by the local clergy, the Revs. Mr. Brown (Anglican), Mr. Bawden Harris (Presbyterian) and Mr. Wilson (Methodist), and the unveiling was performed by the Hon. K. S. Williams, after an appropriate address and the dedication of the memorial by the Ven. Archdeacon Chatterton, vicar of Rotorua. The two minutes' silence was heralded and terminated by the explosion of charges of gelignite from the surrounding hilltops, after which Archdeacon Chatterton gave a stirring address suitable to the occasion. The service was completed by a hymn, a benediction, and the National Apthem. The flagstaff's base is of Whale Island granite, and it is topped with concrete. Between the base and the standard are four faces, two of teak and two of bronze, from H.M.S. New Zealand. They were obtained by Earl Jellicoe. The names of the pupils of. the school killed in the Great War are enclosed in the base. The staff has been erected on a turfed eminence, in a position between the new primary school and the proposed high school, and it is flanked by small plots planted with irises from Jerusalem.