WAR MEMORIAL

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10537, 13 March 1920, Page 7

WAR MEMORIAL

BERHAMPORE COMMITTEE FORMED. A meeting was held at the Masonic Hall, Berhampore, last night, for the purpose of deciding upon a suitable memorial to the fallen soldiers of the district. Mr F. Bennett was voted to the chair. The attendance was not large. Mr B. Warwick (hon. secretary pro torn) said that some had suggested that they should build a memorial hall, but that was estimated to cost about £2OOO, and that was beyond them. Those who were interesting themselves in the matter suggested that the memorial should take the form of an obelisk, costing, say, £ICO to £2OO.

Major Mathieson said that he was sure that the attendance was no criterion of the interest taken in tho matter in the district. He suggested, in the first place, a roll of honour in the Berhampore School, and that they should co-operate in regard to that matter with the South Wellington School. In addition, he thought they should have a monument to the men who had fallen—nothing big, but a chaste, simple memorial. Ho urged -that the first thing was to raise the necessary funds, and then they could decide upon the form of, tho memo-' rial. .

Colonel Mitchell. M.P., said that some time ago the. senior officers of tho N.Z.E.I. met in Wellington, and decided,, that. they , should urge the Govornmout to concentrate upon a national memorial for the whole Dominion, so that they could hare one that would b« thoroughly worthy and inspiring, and that that national memorial should bo set up in Wellington. Local memorials should also be sot up, but they should be made really worth while; and ho suggested• that they should form a, small committee to get in touch with Newtown and South Wellington and other districts round to see what could be done in the way of a memorial for the whole district.

A suggestion made by Air. AlcKeon was that tho City Council should be asked to subsidise a tramway shelter at Duppa street, with a flagpole op it, and a memorial tablet at cither end of the shelter.

Mr Bates supported tho suggestion. Air Bradshaw said that they should get down to bedrock, form u, committee, and see what amount they could raise in the district for a memorial. Ho> moved that all present constitute the committee, with power to add •to their number. There. was quite a number of people who would gladly co-operate with them. Too resolution was carried unanimously, and Air B. Warwick was appointed convener of the committee.