MEMORIAL PLAQUES AND SCROLLS

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume XV, 9 August 1929, Page 2

MEMORIAL PLAQUES AND SCROLLS

FINAL LIST BEING MADE. Recently, a notification was published that the Imperial Government were issuing Memorial Plaques and Scrolls together with a letter from His Majesty, on account of those members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force who have died since being discharged from the Forces pr_>vided the death took place on or before August 31st, 1928, and that it was the result of war service. The Government has now received a despatch stating that the Memorial Plaque Factory will be closed so soon as the outstanding demands have been dealt with. In the circumstances, the Defence Department is forwarding to the United Kingdom a final list of aplications, and this will include all those received by the Department on or before August 26th, therefore the relatives of the deceased soldiers should not delay communication with Base Records Office, Wellington, relative their claim to receive Memorials. Subsequent to August 26th, all applications of this kind will be declined, and the relatives of ex-soldiers will not have cause to blame the New Zealand De-

fence Department if their neglect means to them the loss of the beautiful Memorials.