WAR MEMORIALS

Waikato Times, Volume 91, Issue 14136, 13 August 1919, Page 5

WAR MEMORIALS

WAIPA COUNCIL’S STAND

HOSPITAL WING FAVOURED

OTHER SCHEMES TURNED DOWN

At Us meeting yesterday the Waipa County Council took up a definite stand in regard to its attitude on vyir memorials, which are now ihe cad from many parts of the province. The Te Awamutu Borough Council sought Hie support and co-operation of the Council in the matter of a permanent war memorial for ie Awainu.u centre. The Auckland City Council forwarded a communication seeking support for a war memorial for the Auckland provincial district. The chairman said that the war memorial was becoming a large question and the Council would need to set out its attitude sooner or later. Cr. McGhie held that a definite decision should be come to at that meeting. *■ Cr. Reid’s opinion was that they would have to turn the lot down. If the .Council gave to one it would have to give to the lot, and he contended that the rates were not for that purpose. If war memorials were to go up it should be by voluntary private subscription. He moved in Hie direction indicated. Cr. McGhie, in seconding, said that the Council would know where it stood. The motion was carried.

The Mangapiko and Rangioahia members of the Council were appointed to attend the meeting at Te Awamutu, when they could make aware Hie Council’s decision. Serviceable Proposal.

When the communication from the chairman of the Raglan County Council seeking delegates’ attendance 'at 'a public meeting in Hamilton to discuss the project of a war memorial wing to the Waikato Hospital was read, immediately, Cr Cavanagh spoke strongly in favour. Nothing could be of more service to the returned men, who had every right to be given the maximum of consideration. It was on a different footing altogether from the other types 6f_war memorials 'outlined He moved IffafMhA’ Council give its support. Cr Ellicot seconded.‘

Cr Peacocke said that the scheme was the only proper one and, while against the Soldiers’ Club, he was very much in favour of this proposal. The chairman said that the ordinary memorials should be by private subscription but this was a different type of request, which he favoured, and the Government would also subsidise very substantially. Cr. Ellicott remarked that they were paying big levies to the hospital and this scheme meant economising in a certain sense; ,

There was a general very favourable feeling to the proposal and, on the motion of Crs Johnson and Fullerton, the meeting appointed its chairman (Cr. Fisher) and Crs. Ellicott and Peacocke to attend the Hamilton meeting and report back to next meeting of the Council on the proposed project. Cr. Reid asked if it was necessary for him to withdraw his original motion, but the Council held the hospital wing scheme was on very different lines-to the others. Like the Te Awamutu,,proposal, the Auckland scheme:also-.gets its quietus by Cr. -Reid’s-motion. :■