WAR MEMORIALS.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18676, 27 April 1926, Page 8

WAR MEMORIALS.

MR HURST SEAGER'S LECTURES. Public lectures on the New Zealand battlefields memorials will be given next month by Mr Hurst Seager. At last night's meeting of the City Council the By-laws and Finance Committee reported as follows: — "A letter has been received from tho Under-Secretary of Internal Affairs, stating that Mr Hurst Seager, the architect who designed the New Zear land battlefield memorials overseas, has offered to tour the Dominion lecturing on these memorials, and that he proposes to speak in Cliristchurch on May 12th arid loth next. are approximately 230 lantern slides which will be shown during the lectures, (tind as it is considered that Mr Hurst Seager's offer should be accepted with thanks, the committee has arranged for the Choral Hall to be placed at the disposal of tho lecturer at the Council's cost on the two nights mentioned. The Young Women's ' Christian Association has generously granted the use of the Choral Hall at a specially reduced rate. The lecture will be free." Cr. W. E. Leadley said he was glad to hear that Mr Hurst Seager was going to give the lectures. ' It would arouse interest among thousands of returned soldiers and their relatives. Tile R.S.A. .should lie asked to advertise the lectures, and the Council should officially associate itself with them. The Mayor said the Returned Soldiers' Associtaion had undertaken the necessary advertising.