ROLL OF HONOUR.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16292, 6 December 1920, Page 8

ROLL OF HONOUR.

EEDOLIFFS SCHOOL. A Tcr y j ar E® attendance of residents ana assembled at the .Hedcliffs School on Saturday afternoon to do honour to those m,,0 B f v , cd tlle during tho Great War, . ho choirman of tho School Committee . Mi tin, °*i eU, ' PrtSldcd ; T he. Proceedings opWed with the singing of “ 0 God. Our Help in fA V aS p ofi « rul G o£ i a P r «y* L,v ho Rev E, C. U. Powell, vicar of All Saints' Church, Sumner. Tim chairman slated that So was pleased to se c such a largo attendanco to do honour to the district's representtiv‘Jr,nf at T| t A a r? On V I Fiit y- ci ß ht tepreaonk. * ° £ Hedchfis had served tho Empire, two of thtmi making Hie supreme sacrifice. Ihot were thero that day to do honour to tuo past scholars of the school, and, through tho generosity of two anonymous residents, they now had a roll of honour worthy of tlm names subscribed on it. They should not ntop at that. No country had don© more for -ts returned men than New Zealand. Thero would he in tho future, plenty to do for tlicm, and they wanted to see nothing in the nature of returned men reduced to liegeing lor support. They would sco to it that neitiier they nor their de]Mindenis suffered. Ho nad much pleasure in asking Mr E. H Andrews, the chairman •of tlm Canterbury Board of Eaucatron, to unveil tho tablet. “ Andrews auid that he was very sensible ol tho great honour done tho Board of Education m asking a representative to como ™ , a ‘, ternoon to perform tho ceremony, .vhilst he appreciated that, he appreciated more the fact that tho committe e had decided to honour tho memory of tho bova who had gone to tho front, and erect somotiung which would remind the coming genoration or tho great deeds done in the causo ofrighteousness. Two of the old boys had leit never to return. New Zealand mourned for thousands. It could not afford to loso them but it could less afford to lose its good namo or permit anything to stultify its honour. Before the . war, what did New -.ealimd know of patriotism? Its career had been peaceful, placid and uroKporous. Its people had been born in the lap of liberty and security But, when the-call to anus was sounded, it rcivlised that the Kmpvro was in peril and rallied round the flag. Tho women of the Dominion sent tho boys awiiy with cheery words. Ho would cay, “God bless the women of New Zealand.” If ,mv memorial wcr e needed, it was .one to the memory of tho women who waited, and worked. While New Zealand had Buck women well with the Dominion. IVuay Now Zealand lived amongst the nations as a bright star, whose shining luslr e was the noble deeds of her bravo sons. Thev had specially mot to do honour to the old boys of the Hedcliffs School. He hoped thoi; - deeds would b p such an inspiration to tho rising generation that thov would alwavp promptly respond to the cail of duty. Ho had great pleasure in unveiling tho roll of nonour.

At this slag} a. party of buglers sounded ii)(? ' Last PoM» M beneath tho (school flap;staff, and Mrs E. W. Eidgcoa sang “ O Eest in the Lord.” *

At the request of the chairman, the Maroi* of Sumner, the Hon J. Barr, M.L.C., acL dressed the gathering and said it -whs fftting that the schools should perpetuate the memory of their representatives. 'When a'l was brought to bedrock, no children could ever renay what had been done for them, nocould they repay their country for the privf-' leges they enjoyed. The roll of honour'now in. tho echool would, for nil time, prove a stimulus and remind those who saw it to play the game. 'Whilst wo were a peaceloving people, we might at a future date b,. called upon again to protect our wonderfu* country from the ambitious designs of sonic jealous Power. Then would future generations endeavour to repay the groat debt they owed to tho defendera of the Empire in the Great War. Ho urged the children to pluv the game, put down tho bully, and play always. ’ .

During tho afternoon the scholars of thi school, under tho leadership of tho head master, Mr _W. 1). Kirkpatrick, sang suitr.bU patriotic songs. Totes of thanks wore accorded to Mx K H. Andrews and to others who had assisted The roll of honour is of oak. Tho names are inscribed in gilt lettering on a centre punel,_ stained a darker tone and polished' The list which is surmounted hr the test, "Their name livoth for ever,” 'is as fed* lows:— ,

E. Dalton (killed), H. Maffrey (killed), H Adcock, A. Allen, >A. Barr, H. Barr, E. T. Beavcn, B. 'Blakeley, C. Brown, L. Clark. S. Dalton H. Bobinson. F. Simpson, W, Tipping, J. L. Shackleton, D.C.M.