MAORI WAR MEMORIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 142, 15 June 1920, Page 4

MAORI WAR MEMORIAL.

OX SACRED ROCK. (By Telegrapn.—Own Correspondent) this day. A meeting of the War Memorial Committee last evening discussed the question of designs and cost, and whether the E memorial should be on top of the Sacred Rock or alongside. Three Maori j lepreeentatives favoured building on top I of the Sacred Rock, which stands about 50 feet high, but it was feared the cost : would be excessive. The promoters are prepared to spend considerably over a ! thousand, possibly three thousand. | pounds. Alternative ideas discussed were an arch, plain column design, human figure design, two figures, M»orl and pakeha design, lion, and kiwi. Df cieion was deferred to enable the Maoris to be further consulted, a\<o to obtain designs and pric-es. Excavators employed forming a road level near Sacred Rock yesterday dug up a Victorian shilling in' the middle of the road, and further on found a human skeleton buried five feet beneath th e shelly stratum. The skeleton had evidently been there over a hundred yeaWThe question was raised whether it m*y b<; one of the Moriori (red-haired j ages) who dwelt here prior to tijs arrival 600 years ago, but the Maoris declare it must be a noted MW rI thief, of whom many wrro buried under the shadow of Sacred Roc!;.