MEMORIAL GATE AT TRENTHAM
.To-morrow Bishop Sprott will officiate at the dedication of the memorial lychgate at Trentham, erected by the members of St. John's Anglican Church in memory of those belonging to the Church who fell in. the Gieat War. The "ate winch is in keeping with the Church and its surroundings, is. of oiled jarrah the; roof, being of asbestos tiles. The stones for the wall were taken from the Hutt river-bed, being generously given by the owner of the property from which they were taken, and gathered and carted without cost by vestrymen and other men of the parish There is also a tablet bearing the names of the fallen inside the north wall of the gateway, and this.is of grey Australian granite. The wall extends from each side of the gateway, but is not properly part of the memorial, being added as a setting to the lych-gate and as a part of a scheme for the whole frontage of the churchyard on the .Main road
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 89, 17 April 1925, Page 6
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