STATUE UNVEILED.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 125, 8 March 1930, Page 5

STATUE UNVEILED.

MRS PANKHURST HONOURED. STRIKING LONDON CEREMONY. (United Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, March 7. Mr Stanley Baldwin unveiled a statue of Mrs Pankhurst at Victoria , Tower Gardens. The Metropolitan Police Band, representing the organisation with which Mrs Pankhurst was somewhat familiar, was a striking feature of the ceremony. They played the works of lour women composers. Dame Ethel Smyth, veteran suffragette, was an imposing figure in' academic robes, and she personally conducted two compositions which she wrote during the women's struggle for political equality. The statue, which is the work of Mr A. G. Walker and Sir Herbert Baker, was draped with purply, white and green, the familiar colour of the Women's Social and Political" 'Union. Wreaths were piled, high around the base, one inscribed, "-Mother, from C'hristobel." g. All traffic on the Embankment was Stopped until the close of the ceremony. Mr Baldwin said they had united to dedicate the monument under the shadow of the Housr of Parliament, and it had fallen to his lot to participate in. tire ceremony as One who had for many years opposed Mrs Pankhurst's work, hut eventually he had put the coping-stone on her labours.