POSTAL UNION MONUMENT.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 300, 23 June 1909, Page 5

POSTAL UNION MONUMENT.

[press association.] WELLINGTON, to-day. In pursuance of the decision of congress in 1900 to erect a monument at Berne, commemorating the foundation of the Universal Postal Union, j the Swiss Federal Council invited ' competitive designs, and that of Rene St. Marceaun, a sculptor, of Paris, has been selected. It is described as a work of great talent, and originality. The monument will shortly lie completed, and will be -unveiled in. September, New Zealand being represented by Hon. Mr Hall- Jones, * High Commissioner. [ ' _-=-—