WAR MEMORIAL.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16812, 19 April 1920, Page 6

WAR MEMORIAL.

♦ TO THE EOITOK OF "TfrE I'ltESS.'' Sir.—l read the report of the City Council's deliberations on the Cathedral square site with interest, not unmixed with disgust. I remember Cr. Fleshor at school, and he does not seem to have changed. I suprose that, as the Mayor paid, the matter may now he considered to bo closed, though that is not to say th.it it cannot be re-opened. Before taking any further steps, however, mv own inclination is to let the Hall of" Memories party have a fair run.—Yours, etc., _ GEORGE GOULD. Rotorua, April 15th. TO TTfK EDITOR OF ''THE TRESS." Sir, —Soon a year will have elapsed since peace was proclaimed, but Christchurch is as far" as over from its war memorial. Is it possible that some of our controversialists intend to perpetuate the memory of the dead by a never-ending talking competition? If otherwise. I think it is hicli time that it was definitely decided what form the memorial is to take. It is quite evident from the correspondence that has appeared in "The Press," and its contemporaries, that the decision of tho War Memorial Committee to erect a Hall of Memories is unpopular, and although Dr. Thacker anathematises other organisations with such uncomplimentary enitliets as "parasitic," and so on, he' will find it unwise to force this scheme on an unsympathetic public. The most satisfactory method of gauging nublic opinion is by a newspaper plebiscite. To-day is Monday— would ft he too much to ask of all concerned to so that snmo+hinc rlpfinite is done before the week-end? —Yours, etc., DO IT NOW.