SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL

Waikato Independent, Volume XXIV, Issue 3230, 10 June 1924, Page 3

SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL

RTJKUHIA CEREMONY. Twenty-two men from Rukuhia, a farming district, four miles south of Hamilton, served in the Great War, and of this number nine were killed or died of wounds and nine were wounded. The settlers have erected a memorial to these men in the form of a stone obelisk, suitably inscribed, in the school grounds. This memorial was unveiled on Saturday afternoon by Mr .T. A. Young, M.P.. in the presence of a representative gathering of settlers and military officers. Prior to the ceremony a service was held in the hall nearby, the music being supplied by the Hamilton Sjil vat ion Army Band.

Addresses were given by the Rev. W. Ready,-of Hamilton, the Mayor of Hamilton, Mr. J. 11. Pow, and Mr. Young. The last-named reminded his hearers that the day was the anniversary of the Battle of Messines.

Mr. P. W. Maddock, representing the Retured Soldiers' Association, said the highest service the people of New Zealand could do for the men who had died was to remember, the needs of the 20, 000 disabled men who had returned. A little human kindness, a helping hand along the road, and some consideration

for their wants was all that was asked

for.. The ceremony concluded with the sOunding of the Last Post, and the singing of the National Anthem.