GIFT OF TOWN CLOCK.
PRESENTED TO DARGAVILLE,
(By Telegraph. Press Association.) DARGAVILLE, Wednesday. The following wire was received by the Mayor from the Hon. J. G. Coates: “Have given instructions to Post and Telegraph Department to accept Mr J. N. Hayes’ offer to supply a town clock for the borough of Dargaville.” The clock is a memorial to the late Charles Darling and other Northern Wairoa men who made sacrifice in the Great War. It will have four dials of 2ft 6in diameter, and will be suitable for illumination. A 4cwt bell has been ordered by Littlejohns, to arrive in January or February. The clock will be completed in about nine months. At a meeting of the Returned Soldiers’ Association last night a resolution was carried: “That this association desires to place on record its appreciation of the magnificent gift of a town clock by Mr J. N. Hayes, in commemoration of his late partner, Mr Charles Darling, and other Northern Wairoa members of the N.Z.E.F., who made the supreme sacrifice during the late war.”
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1424, 8 November 1923, Page 8
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175GIFT OF TOWN CLOCK. Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1424, 8 November 1923, Page 8
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