NORMANBY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 16 December 1920, Page 4

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(From Our Own Correspondent.)

SOLDIERS MEMORIAL.

A meeting of the committee was held on Tuesday^ Messrs Preston, Chapman Archbold, Stewart, and Paine being present. The chairman reported that he had seen Messrs Jones Bros. (Hawera) contractors for this memorial and they had stated that they were quite ready to start work and that they con sidered the proposal to place the ma-chine-gun trophies in recesses in the archway could be done at small expense The chairman stated that the prineil pal business was to deal with a petition he had received asking that the proposed memorial should be placed at

The petition, which was signed by X Burgan and 65 others, was' then read.

The chairman stated that subscription lists towards the memorial at the school contained 131 names, and the total amount subscribed was £213 Is ya, and the petition contained only 21 names of those who signed the subli np6d *° a money value of

In answer to a question by the chairman Mr. Archbold said that Mr. Burgon ™, $Ipared1 pared *¥ Petiti°n and taken it round for signature. AiM!i Wer-JV / urtller question Mr. Aichbold said that some of the signatures had been written in by his wife whom he stated had authority f?om ihe 83^1^^ '•^^ h3 € ci*f F man Pointed out that a petition must bear the actual signatures of c^l/ffo^! %™elves, wKose names °°;J d n«* ** written in by anyone else D eft rinnArCh^ ld SP°!l e « fav<3^f t&i petition, and moved that the resoluMiS™ 86? **** meeting-held on August piaeed at the school, be rescinded. lookS nT 1™?. P°inte^ out that this »3tw hkV astl»g a slur on the comSir^t'*/ 1"1 T el? Jly the who had spent a lot of time and had been very successful. He stated tha? biSi toHnTw m + f ''mh«*n*** he hail pSd 4 «f * ¥ meraorial was to be Placed at the school, and in only one larST 5. kT 2 ?? s«sonder the motion aISM* ?L 8° d:d a further one by Mr caHed tl a P, ublio meeting be Soufd £ JSS where the mJLriaJ •^ita/" I**1 **- bUSine£* th*

GENERAL. Sd\re Joo4 and PmSpeCtß for «*«"*