LATE MR. K. S. WILLIAMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22438, 6 June 1936, Page 16

LATE MR. K. S. WILLIAMS

PROPOSAL FOR MEMORIAL EAST COAST DISTRICT SCHEME [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] GISBOTtNE. Friday Within the next few weeks county councils, sports associations and public organisations of all kinds in the Poverty Bay, East Coast, and Bay of Plenty districts will be approached with the view to the institution of a memorial to the public services of the late Mr. K. S. Williams, whose death occurred in November last, on the eve of-the general election. The Returned Soldiers' Association in the three districts will sponsor the movement in the first instance. but it is proposed that committees should be formed in the various localities to organise activities. The decision to inaugurate the movement was reached at a meeting of the Gisborne Returned Soldiers' Association's executive, when three letters were received from sub-association committees in ('oast areas, urging that the time was ripe for an effort to perpetuato the memory of Mr. Williams. The letters dealt not only with Mr. Williams' activities on behalf of ex-soldiers, who had 110 better friend in tho Dominion, but also with his general services to the district in his work in Parliament, his untiring efforts to improve the conditions of the less fortunate in the community, and his lifelong interest in young people and their various interests. Commenting upon these letters the district president of the Gisborne Heturned Soldiers' Association, Colonel I?. F. Gambrill, stated that the initiative had rightly come from the East Coast, where Mr. Williams had lived the greater part of his life and where he was most intimately known. The project would lie welcomed throughout the whole of the Poverty Bay and Bay of Plenty districts, as well as 011 tho Coast, and while returned men would welcome the opportunity of sponsoring the plan at the outset and would work wholeheartedly for its success, they realised that tliev constituted only one group of the community, in which almost, everyone would be eager to take part in tho effort.