Greytown Soldiers’ Memorial Park & Memorial Park Gates

GPS 41.076 S 175.459 E

When in 1919 Daniel O’Connor was about to sell a 20-acre block of native bush in Kuratawhiti Street to a sawmiller, local solicitor J.F. Thompson suggested Greytown Borough Council buy it as a war memorial. A deposit of £500 was raised within 24 hours and the balance, at £80/acre, was collected over the next year by local committees. (more…)