THE WAR MEMORIAL.

Southland Times, Issue 18931, 3 May 1923, Page 4

THE WAR MEMORIAL.

It appears that the War Memorial Committee finds itself faced with an awkward problem in connection with the names to be inscribed on the base of the memorial, the work on which will be started almost at once. There are many pointe at which limits might be set in determining what names are to be put on the panels at the base of the column, but the desire of everybody will be that the provincial character of the memorial shall be retained and that there shall be no hurtful discrimination, but these desirable things are the beginning of the difficulties unless it is recognised that there must be some delimiting line gnd some system which will give the Mem orial Committee a sense of finality. It seems to us that the narrtes to go on the memorial must be limited to those who actually enlisted in Southland. If the limits are widened so as to include every Southlander who served in the war, the chances of someone being overlooked will be greatly increased, although it must be admitted that the task of obtaining the names of those who were in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force would not be impossible. The wider limits would entail a lot of work and it is doubtful if the Committee would be able to reach finality in the time at its disposal. In other places the plan usually adopted is to confine-, the names to those men and women who enlisted from the district, and that seems to us to offer the most satisfactory means of disposing of the first point. This is a War Memorial and is to preserve the names of those who fell in the service of the Empire, therefore the panels, we suppose, will bear the names of those who gave their lives. Here again the Committee’s difficulty is the determination of the boundary line, and here again an essential in the fixing of the limits is the assurance of finality and protection from differential treatment. If finality is to be secured some limit must be fixed and it seems to us that the fairest and the most satisfactory means of securing that finality is to restrict the names to those who died while actually members of the Expeditionary Force. It will be argued that men who died after their discharge from the forces, as a result of war injuries, are entitled to have their names placed on the memorial, and the argument cannot be refuted, but to accept this as a solution of the problem means that there can be no finality unless some date is fixed, and that cannot fail to be unsatisfactory, in addition to which the door would be opened to lengthy discussions as to whether or not a man’s death was directly due to the war. When the whole question is weighed, we think it will be found that to restrict the names to those who died while members of the forces will be the most satisfactory way of fixing the limits. The Committee has not yet made its mind up, and' doubtless is anxious to have a lead from outside its own ranks on a problem that is undoubtedly difficult, and we would, therefore, welcome opinions on this subject.

Yesterday’s mid-day express from the north arrived in Invercargill 75 minutes late owing to the derailment of a ballast train north of Balclutha.

A largely signed petition from the residents of Wallacetown has been presented to the Power Board asking the Board to reticulate the township and to supply current to consumers.

The following further additions to the Poppy Day Fund have been received by the secretary of the Returned Soldiers’ Association:—Kennington, £3 8/-; Waianiwa, £2 10/-; miscellaneous, 13/-. The total amount in hand is now £364.

Mr H. E. Niven writes to say that in the report of his remarks in defence of the Southland teachers there was a slight inaccuracy. It was the Rector of the Gore High School he mentioned not of the Girls’ High School of Invercargill.

The Auckland Education Board supported a suggestion by the Education Board’s Association that a case be stated for the courts in the decision with regard to the limitation of Government subsidies, says an Auckland Press Association telegram.

It was decided at the Bay of Islands Acclimatisation Society’s annual meeting, held at Kawakawa (says the Northern Advocate) to approach the Minister of Internal Affairs to have the protection removed from kingfishers, one of the prettiest of native birds, owing to depredations among trout fry.

To give an idea of the large trout being caught at Taupo, it is stated that on a recent Sunday a motorist, returning to Napier brought back with him thirteen fish weighing 111 b., states the Telegraph. It is also stated that one morning before breakfast five trout were landed at Waitahanui, near Taupo, each fish being over 131 b.

At a sitting of the Invercargill Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Mr G. Cruickshank, S.M.,’ a statutory first offender for drunkenness,- who had spent the night in the lock-up was convicted and discharged. In the Juvenile Court two boys/ aged 9 and 13, were committed to the Caversham Home, on account of their father, a widower, being unable to give them the necessary care and attention..

An Auckland message states that the total bankruptcies in the Auckland district, which includes Hamilton, Whangarei, Gisborne, New Plymouth, Stratford and Hawera, in 1922 numbered 321, compared with 136 in 1921, and 56 in 1920. Of these 153 were administered from the Auckland office. Farmers predominated, numbering 96.

The commission for the welfare of the blind, Messrs J. Caughley (-chairman-), Clutha MacKenzie, R. H. Nolan, J. W. Tibbs, held a sitting in Wellington yesterday. Evidence was given of two blind persons as to the conditions under which they were earning their living and by Mrs Bessie Osborne, making various suggestions for the amelioration of the conditions of the blind.—Press Association.

The Ladies’ Guild of the Progress Co-op. Society met on Tuesday evening. Mrs W. Curry presided over a fair attendance. A number of items by various members were given ajid the evening finished with supper. The previous Tuesday a farewell was tendered to Mrs Lee, who is leaving for Auckland. She had been a member of the Guild for some time and was also on the committee. Mrs Curry presented Mrs Lee with a doulton bowl, to which the recipient suitably responded.

There was a fair attendance at the meeting called in Tuatapere last Saturday evening for the purpose of forming a branch of the Farmers’ Union. Visitors were also present from the Orawia and the Waiau (Clifden) branches of the Union. Mr P. Arnott, president, and Messrs A. McKenzie and R. Sim, of the Southland Provincial Council, were also present, and explained the aims and objects of the Union with the result that a Branch was formed with Mr G. Robertson, of Te Wae Wae, as chairman, and Mr James Young, as secretary. It was decided to inaugurate a campaign throughout the district for the purpose of securing members.

The Union Steam Ship Company proposes to extend its coastal services to a port hitherto not included in its extensive itinerary. It is announced that in all probability (if sufficient cargo is offering from South Island merchants and manufacturers) a steamer will be placed on the loading berth at Dunedin towards the end of May for Tauranga, the principal port in the Bay of Plenty. The steamer will call at Oamaru, Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, Napier, and Gisborne on the way north. The first loading will be really a trial fixture, and it is hoped that the support will be sufficient not only to warrant the starting but the continuance of this additional coastal service (states the Dunedin Star). It is expected that the steamer to be utilised will be the Kini, which has been engaged in the cargo trade between Dunedin, Napier, and Gisborne via way ports for some time past.

A mean theft was described at the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, on Monday, when a young man named Arthur William Taylor, described as a steward, appeared before Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., on a charge of stealing a lady’s gold wristlet watch, the property of Aethea Martin. Chief-Detective Kemp explained that the accused had gone to a shop with a woman with whom he was boarding, who desired to purchase some baby’s clothes. While the clothes were being chosen, the defendant - picked up the watch of the complainant, which was lying on a box, and put it in his pocket. Nothing more was heard of it until inquiries were commenced by Detective McLennan, when the accused, of his own free will, brought the watch to the police station, and had stated that he had succumbed to a sudden temptation. “However,” concluded the Chief-Detective, “he brought the watch back ” “Yes.” put in the Bench, “and it saved him from a month’s hard labour. He is fined £6, the value of the watch.”

Now that the tender for the erection of the Fallen Soldiers’ Memorial has been accepted, the committee is faced with the problem of deciding what names should be inscribed on the memorial. At yesterday’s meeting there was a wide diversity of opinion in the matter. Some of the members expressed the view that the list of names should be confined to those who died while on active service. Others expressed the opinion that the names. of those who returned and afterwards died as the result of war service should also be included, but in this connection it was stated that there would be great difficulty in some cases of deciding whether death was due to the effects of active service. The question of what constituted a Southland soldier was also discussed, but the committee was unable to decide whether the names should be confined to those who enlisted in Southland or whether those who were born and bred in Southland but enlisted elsewhere were entitled to have their names inscribed on the memorial. Eventually the meeting decided to hold the matter over in the meantime.

Devonport had the funniest meeting in its history when some 24 candidates seeking election to the Borough Council or other local bodies gave five-minute addresses in the Masonic Hall on Tuesday evening (states the Auckland Star). “Be gorra I” exclaimed one grinning speaker, “I think the hands of the clock will go too slow for me. I’ve got palpitation; I think I’ll need to see a doctor. Since I got up here it is as if a little window had opened in my head and all the little birdies had gone out.” The “house” rocked with laughter. Then the candidate confided that it was one thing speaking to a group of friends in the street, but it was quite another matter addressing intelligent people 1 Another speaker metaphorically opened his mouth and put his foot in it by beginning his peroration thus: “Speaking of the roads as a whole.” This was too much for the ratepayers, whose general idea is that the roads are a series of holes, and the rest of the remarks were lost in the merriment created.

A resident of Suva, writing to a friend in Christchurch, states that there is a man on the island who has reached the age of 99 years, and who has for ten years past, in anticipation of his death, had a coffin on the verandah of his residence. A few weeks ago he became ill, and, to save inconvenience to his friends, he attired himself in a shroud and stretched himself out in the coffin, where he lay for a whole day. In the words of the Irish wit, he “could not die for the life of him,” and at latest accounts he was still going strong.

American wireless broadcasting was “picked up” in New Zealand last week (reports the Christchurch Sun). Several times, in the past few evenings, Mr R. J. Orbell, of Heaton street, Christchurch, who has an up-to-date wireless plant, has received broadcasted music (both vocal and orchestral* and speech from the Los Angeles station. Each time the broadcasting has finished with the words, “This is broadcasting station Los Angeles. Goodnight everyone!” followed by a bar or two of “The Star-spangled Banner.’”

Yesterday’s programme for the Education Week took the form of a Parent’s Day at the different schools. The opportunity was fully availed of by those interested in the working of the school and their children’s progress and good attendances were reported. The parents and friends who attended were conducted through the different classes and evinced great interest in the working of the classes, while many helpful suggestions in-connection with the school were received from the visitors. This part of Education Week may be set down as a great success, and it offers a splendid method of securing a closer relationship between pupil, teacher and parent.

Perhaps the most touching of the Anzac Day ceremonies at Greymouth (says an exchange) was the annual pilgrimage of the returned soldiers to the Karora Cemetery, where they laid wreaths on the graves of those who had died since their return. With the returned men were the Mayor (Mr J. D. Lynch) and the Deputy-Mayor (Mr W. H. Parfitt). The sexton led the pilgrimage to each grave, where the men, after laying the wreaths, stood bare-headed for a moment in silence. Honour was paid in this way to the late* Sister Ada Florence Kilgour’s work as a war nurse, which was gratefully remembered by the soldiers as they laid their tribute of honour above her last resting place. Honour was also paid to the memory of Nurse Jamieson, who made the supreme sacrifice on the torpedoed hospital ship Marquette. grade Jersey heifers and two pedigree Jersey bulls from the Hunua farm of Mr Robert Burns were shipped from Auckland to Fiji by the Tofua on Saturday to the order of Mr J. Barker as the nucleus of a scheme for supplying Suva with fresh milk. This is the first shipment of pedigree stock to Fiji. If it turn* out a success, and there is no reason why it should not be, it will mean an important trade in cattle between New Zealand and Fiji. Hitherto they have been working in Fiji on stock that came from India, which, while it stood the climate well, cannot compare with New Zealand dairy cattle. Mr Barker made a very careful inspection before he finally decided to select from Mr Burns’s herd, which was carefully built up from celebrated Taranaki stock, the mothers averaging over 3301 b of butter-fat.

A winter school for farmers will be held at Ashburton from Monday, May 14 to May 19, under the direction of Dr A. H. Cockayne (Government Biologist) says the Lyttelton Times. A series of lectures dealing with various branches of farming will be given daily. They include: “Breeding and Management of Sheep for the Fat Lamb Trade” (Mr R. E. Alexander), “Diseases of Wheat” (Dr Hilgendorf), “Herd Testing” (Mr S. Clayton). “Diseases of the Dairy Cow” (Mr J. Stafford), and veterinary lecture (a) “Diseases of the Breeding Ewe” (b) “Diseases of Farm Horses” (Mr J. Kerrigan). Among other subjects which will be covered are those of manures, irrigation, shelter belts and the growing of farm timber, lucerne, pastures and pure seed Professor Shelley will give an address on “Education in Relation to Agriculture” and Professor Condliffe will speak on “Farm Economics.”

60 dozen Swiss embroidered handkerchiefs, bought by our London buyer at job prices, worth 1/3‘each, Friday’s price 6d each, or 6 for 2/6. We will sell the lot on Friday. H. and J. SMITH, Ltd.— (Advt.).

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