WORKS IN PAEROA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20288, 22 June 1929, Page 15

WORKS IN PAEROA.

RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT. THE WAR MEMORIAL SCHEME. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] PAEROA, Friday. A proposal has been made by the Mayor of Paeroa, Mr. W. Marshall, to raise approximately £3OOO for the relief of unemployment at, Paeroa. It is proposed to use the money on various borotlgh improvement works and also ih the erection of a war memorial on Primrose Hill. As a result of requests from a section of the people for the substitution ©f a utilitarian scheme for a war memorial in place of a monument, it was decided at a meeting of the promoters of the fund last evening to devote a portion of the funds to the erection in brick of a rest room near the Paeroa public library. As all donations carry a Government pound for pound subsidy residents are being called on to subscribe approximately £lsoo, of which amount £7OO has already been raised. Tho war memorial will take- the form of a cenotaph to lie erected on Primrose Hill at an estimated cost of £BSO. It will stand beside the monument erected to the memory of Sergeant-Major Radford, who was the first New Zealander killed in the South African War. The rest room is also estimated to cost £BSO, and it will meet tho wishes of objectors to tho cenotaph. The remaining amount of £450, excluding Government assistance, to bo raised locally, will bo obtained by a queen carnival and other social functions. Subcommittees are now organising support for the following queens: —Business, Miss I. Masters; farmers. Miss 11. Matthews; sports, Miss V. Shand.