FALLEN SOLDIER HONOURED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17094, 25 February 1919, Page 6

FALLEN SOLDIER HONOURED

MEMORIAL AT ONEHUNGA.

Tils fiwt war memorial erected in Onehuftga was unveiled yesterday afternoon. The memorial consists of a drinking fountain presented by Mrs. Matthew Friar in memory of her son, William Robert Friar, who wag killed in France. It is crected in front of the Presbyterian Church, Queen Street, and bears the following inscription : " Erected in memory of Wilham Robert Friar, 3rd Battalion. N.Z. ™ne Brigade, who died on November 5, 1917, at Boulogne, France, of wounds received at Passehendaele: aged 24 years ■Pro Patria." The Mayor, Mr. J. Stoupe, Sir Frederick Lang M.P., or Manukau, and Canon Haselden, delivered short addresses. The unveiling ceremony was performed by Mr. W. N. Mcintosh, headmaster of the Onehunga State school, at which tho late Rifleman Friar was educated. Rifleman Friar left New Zealand with the seventeenth reinforcements. Rifleman Friar wag one of several who volunteered on October 12, 1917, to go back for reinforcements, and it was then that he was wounded by a machine-gun. The children attending the public school were present, and sang two hymns under the direction of Mrs. H. Murdoch.