THE ROLL OF HONOUR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20421, 25 November 1929, Page 12

THE ROLL OF HONOUR.

A PERSONAL MEMORIAL.

RETURNED SOLDIERS' LEAD.

PUBLIC SUPPORT SOUGHT.

NEED FOR PROMPT RESPONSE

Tho Auckland Returned Soldiers' Association, taking action to provido the War Memorial Museum with a roll of honour, has given a lead to every citizen in the provincial district. This decision brings in sight a fitting climax to public effort to perpetuato tho memory of tho men and women of this district who laid down their lives for others. Without tho roll of honour, no provincial memorial, however elaborate, could be regarded as complete. With it, any memorial, whatever its appropriate form, will havo given to it a crowning touch.

It is the sacrificed treasure of human lives, not merely of material wealth, that calls most appealingly for grateful remembrance: hence tho realised necessity for something moro than an impocsonal commemoration. Their names should live for evermore, each of them recalled in love by some circle of sorrowfully proud associates and all hold in honouring regard by an appreciative people. Nothing can so intimately focus gratitude, nothing so bring homo to others' hearts tho fact that a living wall stood valourously between them and a worse woe, as the inscription of name after name of these who, counting not their lives dear unto them, paid without grudging the utmost prico exacted by the terrible conflict. For personal names aro, of all things known to speech, tho most vividly suggestive of vital individuality. In the great company of tho valiant dead, one in a shared purpose, each devoted life can thus, and in no other clear way, bo viewed, as it should be, apart.

The project so splendidly initiated by the Returned Soldiers' Association merits the prompt support of all within the district. It is confidently hoped that without delay the required amount—a considerable sum not yet capable of precise statement, but estimated at about £4OOO —will be subscribed.

The sura of £658 15s had been received on, Saturday for the lists opened in the city. The Returned Soldiers' Association acknowledges the following donations:— £ s. d.

J. E. Astlcy and Wesley Spragg .. .. .. ... 50 0 0 H. Morpeth .. - i. • 10 10 0 G. R. Hutchinson (A.M.R.) t ... 5 5 0 Mrs. Enwright .. .j 10 0 12-349 , 10 0 A. Tattersall (A.M.R.) . 10 0

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