HUNTERVILLE NEWS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 269, 14 November 1945, Page 2

HUNTERVILLE NEWS

R.S.A. MEETING ROOMS (0.C.) Hunterville, Nov. 13. The proposal of the Hunterville branch of the R.S.A. to have its own headquarters and meeting room has now taken definite shape and a campaign to raise funds is meeting with enthusiastic public support. The scheme is to alter the building next to Stan Abel’s, recently donated to the branch, to provide an office for the secretary and a suitable meeting room with certain amenities. There will be provision in the front for u small shop and in allocating the tenancy of this preference will, of course, be given to a returned man. It is estimated that the alterations and additions will cost in the vicinity of £5OO and it is to raise this money that the campaign is now proceeding. The proposal was further discussed at a general meeting of the branch last week. An application had earlier been made to the Town Board for a permit to proceed with the work and when a reply was read to the effect that the application had been held over, members expressed astonishment at the board’s attitude. It was unanimously decided to ask the board to treat the matter as one of urgency and to forward any instructions in regard to by-laws so that the work could commence immediately.

A hearty vote of thanks was accorded Miss Climo for donating a cycle for competition. CHURCH PARADE

In commemoration of Armistice Day members of the R.S.A. and Home Servicemen’s Association paraded to the Church of England on Sunday evening, there being a large congregation which was addressed by Padre W. L. Low, who spoke of the responsibilities of all sections of the community in building the post-war world. During the service, Mr. Low read the names of servicemen who had made the supreme sacrifice in the recent war and they were remembered in a reverent silence. The Lessons were read by Messrs. D. S. Morris (Ist. N.Z.E.F.) and C. N. Wallis (2nd. N.Z.E.F.)

At the morning service Girl Guides Boy Scouts, Brownies and Cubs paraded, when opportunity was taken by Mr. Low to remind the young people of their duty to God, to their King and country, and to their fellows. A two-minutes’ silence in memory of the glorious dead was observed. LOC AL INTEREST IN WANGANUI NURSES’ C AMPAIGN

Residents of Hunterville and district should have a special interest in the campaign now being conducted by the nurses of the Wanganui Hospital to provide themselves with a suitable club room, inasmuch as the Eason Ward Queen (Nurse Patricia Campbell), in the inter-ward competition, is an ex-Hunterville fcirl. Only patients or ex-patients know just how deserving the cause of the nurses is and just how enthusiastically they are working at the present time, between long and exacting duties, to raise funds for their club room. No apology is made for bringing the campaign on behalf of Nurse Campbell to Hunterville for it provides many Hunterville residents with an opportunity to show in tan' ible way their appreciation of the outstanding nursing services always received at the Wanganui Hospital. Any donations towards the Eason Ward candidate (or for the candidate of any other ward if desired) may be left at Stan Abel's shop, where there are also particulars of an interesting competition. WAR MEMORIAL There is unanimous agreement in the Hunterville district that the war memorial on this occasion should be of a utilitarian nature and a proposal advanced at the recent R.S.A. meeting has much to commend it. It was reported that the local pri-% rate hospital (with its facilities for both maternity and surgical cases) is shortly to close down and the proposal of the returned men is that the building be acquired and modernised along approved lines and then handed over to the Wanganui Hospital Board, free of all debt, as “The Hunterville District Memorial Hospital.” The proposal is to be placed before the local Patriotic Committee but in the meantime the R.S.A. is prepared to hear the cost of securing plans and specifications approved by the Health Department and the Hospital Board, and to secure the assurance of the usual Government subsidy. Only one other proposal for a war memorial has been brought forward and this was done at a Patriotic Committee meeting some months ago, before the R.S.A. building scheme was inaugurated and before the hospital proposal was mooted. It. was in the direction of providing a memorial hall. Little, however, has been heard of this proposal since, as the committee of the recently revived Pipe Band have already a scheme in hand to improve the Scots' Hall and there, therefore, seems little need of another hall in the town (in addition to the Town Hall), particularlv as the R.S.A. is providing an adequate meeting room.