RETURNED SOLDIERS' CLUB.
QUESTION OF WAB MATERIAL.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) TIMARU, Wednesday.
Cabinet having decided to permit funds to be raised for war memorials in tho shape of returned soldiers' clubs, a meeting of the Timaru war memorial committeo and returned soldiers last night differed on the question whether a soldiers' club and war memorial should be combined or separate, schemes. The soldiers feared separation, would injure the club proposal. After discussion it was decided to adopt a combined scheme, the building to bo called the Soldiers' Club War Memorial. The cost suggested is £12,000. The Returned Soldiers , Association has some hundreds in hand, and Mr Maling, the Mayor, who presided at the meeting, promised to give his honorarium, £200.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 45, Issue 13755, 6 February 1919, Page 5
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120RETURNED SOLDIERS' CLUB. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 45, Issue 13755, 6 February 1919, Page 5
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