TE KARAKA NEWS
(Herald Correspondent.) Tho usual steps are being taken for the proper. observance of Anzac Day. A service will be held in the afternoon at the soldiers’ memorial, if fine; if the weather is wet, it- will be held in the Waikohu Hall. The programme will be similar to last year’s and the address will be given by Mr. Harris, minister of the Presbyterian Church in this district. The offer of tho Gisborne Band to play appropriate music at the service and to lead the procession to and from the memorial has been accepted gratefully. Volunteers have been busy tidying the ground around the memorial, which had become somewhat overgrown, and the names on the monument which have become partially defaced are to be restored.
A statement of accounts submitted to the Waikohu Returned Soldiers’ Sports Club after the Easter Monday meeting showed a credit balance of £45. It- was decided to donate £5 to the Te Karaka Recreation Ground Committee and £5to the Returned Soldiers’ Association for renovating the soldiers’ memorial. Very lif-tle rain has fallen since the middle of February, and pastures are getting dry. House tanks are nearly empty in many cases, but the position has been helped slightly by the light showers which have fallen since Thursday,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18378, 21 April 1934, Page 16
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213TE KARAKA NEWS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18378, 21 April 1934, Page 16
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