WAR MEMORIAL

Greymouth Evening Star, 31 January 1923, Page 2

WAR MEMORIAL

MEETING OF COMMITTEE.

The adjourned meeting of the Grey Dis trict AA 7 ar Memorial Committee was held at the Council Chambers last evening; present: Messrs J. D. Lynch (chairman', A. Armstrong, H. T. Trouland, S. White, A. H. McKane, J. D. Gillies, R. G. Caigou, E. Ashton, and F. H. Demm (acting-secretary). Messrs Parkinson and Co., Auckland, wrote as follows, under date of .Idiiuavy 24; —“We regret that our repealed requests for details, of inscription have met with no response, which we assume to mean that your Committee do nut want this work completed by Anzac Day. AA hen we received your valued order, we unde 1 - stood that the work was to be finished Ly April 25, and we have concentviued cur plant and staff on this job, and have laid out a considerable sum of money, and we were prepared to wait until completion before requesting payment; but as it is now indefinite when the worn wdl be completed, and our finances do not allow us to keep our money locked up, we woidd appreciate a progress payment —snv, half the amount of contract, as the stone portion is now approaching completion, and that is the major portion. I'he'e is at leal six weeks’ work on the bronze p'-r--ticn, and if we had the information required at once, and then urged the foundry continually, it is still possible to finish in time; but we trust that your Committee are prepared to accept the responsibility of our not delivering the monument on due date if there is any further delay.”

The Chairman suggested that the Auek land City Council’s Engineer be asked to inspect the work already done and iix the amount of a progress payment. On the motion of Dlr Armstrong, seconded by Dlr Trouland, the matter was left in the hands of the Chairman aid trustees to obtain a report from the Auckland City Council Engineer, and make ;■ progress payment. Dlr R. E. AVylde, who was commissione i to compile a list of names for inscription on the cenotaph, made a preliminary report. He had secured 108 names, and ex-r-icted there would be about 150. A week’s extension of time was grarite 1 Dlr AVylde to complete the list, which will then be published with a view to securing any names omitted.

A letter from the Greymouth Fire. Board advised that the reel shed would ho. removed from the site selected foi the ci notaph when the Committee arranged with the Borough Council for another tile for the shed, written authority from the Council to be, supplied to the Board.

Dlr Gillies moved that a copy of the letter be sent to the Borough Council, asking them to direct the Fire Board where to re-erect the building. The motion was seconded by Dlr Trouland and carried. INSCRIPTION -SELECTED. A sub-committee (Dlessrs Caigou, Gillies and DlcKane) appointed to collect suggested inscriptions for the cenotaph presented several to the meeting, Dlr Caigou reporting that Dlr J. Kent had been of great assistance to the sub-committee. Dlr Kent, who was present, was asked for his views, and advised the committee After the various inscriptions were read and discussed, the following was finally selected unanimously “Remember with thanksgiving the true and faithful men who in the years of the Great War 1914-1918 went forth for God and Right. The names of those who returned not again are here inscribed to bo honoured for evermore.”