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Taranaki Daily News, 19 September 1924, Page 4

Messrs. W. W. Thomson and J. Jemison have been nominated for the vacancy on the New Plymouth Borough Council Caused by the resignation of Mr. R. A. Large on his transfer to Wellington. An election will be held on Wednesday, September 24. Nominations closed at noon yesterday. Mr. Jemison was nominated by Messrs. R. Fulton.. W. Rodgers, A. J. Gay lard, J. TL Edwards, G. J. Blacker and R. J. Clarke. Mr. Thomson was nominated bv Messrs. W. Marr, R. J. Cock, J. R.' Hill, A. Ambury, H. M. Bacon, J. West, C. Francis and C. C. Lake. There will be two changes in the positions of polling booths. The booth at Wallace Place will be the garage on the children’s playground, and the Frankleigh Park booth will be located in the public hall.

A correspondent writes: “In your article on the site of the New Plymouth cenotaph you rightly state that the locality where it is erected is very historical. The site of the old pa, as I recollect the remains of it, was just about opposite the railway station, so that the cenotaph is some little distance away, You say that the pa was finally abandoned in 1832, but I recollect several whares there in the ’fifties, and one old native who lived there (Erangi, father of Bob Erangi,. well known in New Plymouth) was a typical savage. As boys we used to annoy the old man, and it was a case of run for it, for I verily believe if Erangi had caught one of ns with a weapon in his hand he would have used it to some purpose. When Mount Eliot was being demolished there were quite a number of skulls and other human bones unearthed, showing that the Maori burial ground was quite close to the pa-”

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