WAR TROPHIES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 13 August 1921, Page 5

WAR TROPHIES

THE PROSPECTIVE PROFITS.

A letter was iretyeived by t the * Borough Council at its .meeting [last night from the Hawera.branch of the R.S.A., requesting that ;flny profits .from, the war trophies exhibition to be held in .iHawera be haaxded .oyer tp :the resumed soldiery .-so tthat they might be i.used in assist„%£ ftp the new dub.

.The Mayor said there was a -sum of £40 still owing in (Qonneotion with the peace celebrations., and if they .could obtain the Auda&ar-Generai's consent to this amount out of funds already available, he {thought the fseturned soldiers should have the first claim on the proceeds from :the trophies exhibition. Then, if a sufficient peofit was made, he thought they might."make a donation to $10 womefl'-g rest room. He believed -thftt the exhibition had: been fwirajnged t>y the Department partly wj&h a vjiew to assisting ."local bodies £0 : meet liabilities incurred with the p^ace ; and other 'Celebrations, which couM :not be met rout of ordinary funds, jssnd if they qou%l not provide for the payme.nfi; of the £40 in pother way it "(should h&ve to ;be a first ,<ftaim on the j^rofits 4x'&tn the