THE WAR MEMORIAL.

Waipa Post, Volume XXI, Issue 1281, 15 August 1922, Page 4

THE WAR MEMORIAL.

SHE OF THE MONUMENT.

REMOVAL OF POWER BOARD OFFICES.

At last night’s meeting of the Te Awamutu Borough Council the Mayor introduced a deputation from the War Memorial Committee, which came in regard to the site actually selected for the memorial. An alteration to the building might be necessary to fit in with the plans. Cr Spinley and himself had been looking into the matter, and had come to the conclusion that it would be necessary to remove portion of the building if the .monument, a beautiful one, were to get a proper and effective setting. Mr H. Y. Collins (chairman of the War Memorial Committee) addressed the councillors, bearing out the Mayor’s remarks. He thought the better site for the monument would be on the section itself, though that course would necessitate alteration to the buildings. It would still be some months before the contractors would be ready to start the work in Te Awamutu, so that the Council had plenty of time in which to arrange with the Power Board as to alterations to the building. Mr E. MoNab, represening the contractors for the monument., supported the request, saying that the erection of a memorial on the section would be preferable to having it in the street. Most of the cities and towns were removing such monuments from roads, and he thought that as Te .Awamutu would continue to grow it would be better to set the monument back. Even a plot of grass tended to set off a monument. The monument would be ready for erection next March. A plan submitted showed that .a portion of the front part of the existing building would have to be demolished to comply with the committee’s wishes. Mr McNab added that it would be inadvisable to erect the monument with the idea of removing it later. It was desirable to erect the monument in its permanent place at the start. Mr R. A,. Coyne said the building would really have to be put back. k 'Or Pea'te agreed that the monument, being a permanent structure, -should be erected in its final place. Mr A. E. Patterson said that the removal of about two-fifths of the front part of the present building would meet the requirements of the case. Cr Spinley said the alteration might force the Power Board to build its own offices. /

The Mayor thanked the deputation for- its information ,and assured its members that the 'Council would do its utmost to help the committee to ward placing the memorial on a permanent site.

The deputation then withdrew. The 'matter was later considered in committee, and it , was subsequently reported that the Council had decided to terzninae the Power Board’s tenancy of the building on'lst March next, the building to be subsequently sold for dismantling, so as to make plenty of room for the monument.