"LEST WE FORGET."

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 9 December 1913, Page 4

"LEST WE FORGET."

'■> (By Our Tokaora Correspondent.}: „ Some time back, ia conjunction, with Waihi Cemetery Commissioner* akcf committee of old Soldiers; Reaves, I - wrote to the executive' of 'tlift A. ap4 V - ? r. j Association asking iff 1^ ri&tter ' body would permit a collection t<> bev-'i ;; H collected to be' deyoted;^ Bfijaowiting:' ; .old; soldiers' graves , and^erecting > A • memorials. We also solicited; tKe co^; " :' operation of the Territoiials an* > Koyal Veterans^ Association^. TKis in;; X both cases was readily given, and ; : SergeantrMajorv Mahoneyj{ B«n seer».; f • :tar^'-tp :the -Bp^al^^ran^^Associa4M^i^ tion', was the prime Wbver and'an'ex-' « cellent worker. The satisfactory sum j 16., 18s- has been so far collected,' and paid Qver to the treasurer (Mr C Dayies) of: old soldiers' memorials ani duly banked. The heartiest thanks are ; due by those who venerate the memory of our fiaHen, uoldiers and settlers ti all who, so freely assisted. vSergi.Major Mahoney is stiU on the "wai* path collecting, and further don.%. tiibns, wm be thankfully received. Ther» are still many isolated grares of our oldi warriors not yet suitably markedl and shoiiM funds permit these will bft! - ffroperfe cared for. The Stratford A! and P. people haWvno time for our oldi soldiers. Had it not been for the danger and deatfrtfiose old warriors faced it J fet very questionable- if there would haw been a sbow m Stratford this montk They refused to allow a collection to be taken up m aid of our funds. The day may not be. far disiaa* whea Stratford officials will be sorry for this regrettable incident. Nomanby residents, I learn,, are inaugurating a grand eonceri to take place shortly to supplement our funds. Success to them. Up to last week the Government have not granted to Normanby the ; grants recommended by the ttspecto«> : of old soldiers' graves, but one of £5 per annum ia granted, for the Ohawe military cemetery, wrhaps bett«r " known as the Waingongoro beaehV cemetery. - v