GUNS IN PARKS.
(To the Editor.) Sir,—l think Albert Park is one of the nicest little public resorts it has been my lot to see, and many are the happy hours I have spent there. Apart from the need for a few seats placed under the trees for shade, the place would be perfect were it not for those hideous meomentoea of war. Their presence is altogether incongruous. Beautiful trees and shrubs, green lawns and flowers, and cannon. The music of birds and breezes, the laughter of playing.children, amid the guns that recall" the dreadful noise of .battle. Over in England we petitioned the authorities in more than cne city and got them removed. Other cities flatly refused to accept these trophies of war from the Government: I don't believe anyone here really wants them. They are neither of use, nor, in any sense, of the word, ornamental, and it is certain their presence does not tend to increase that Universal Brotherhood inaugurated by the Prince of Peace.—l am, etc., BROTHER JOHN.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 144, 19 June 1926, Page 15
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