NATIONAL WAR MEMORIAL

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26985, 10 March 1953, Page 10

NATIONAL WAR MEMORIAL

COMPLETION URGED

ADDRESS BY SIR HOWARD

. KIPPENBERGER

(New Zealand Press Association) WANGANUI. March 9. “Our dead are nobly commemorated in Athens, the capital of Greece but not in our own capital city,” said Sir Howard Kippenberger, Dominion president of the Returned Services’ Association, in a broadcast address in Wanganui laSt night. “I am very sorry and disappointed that nothing whatever has yet been done about the completion of the national war memorial. , “We have in Wellington the Carillon Tower, the half-completed memorial to the men who died in World War I. We hope to see it completed as a memorial to the dead of both wars, and to me it seems a national reproach that nothing has been done.” Sir Howard Kippenberger said that he had visited many places in every province in the Dominion in the last 12 months, and everywhere he found Returned Servicemen’s Associations and branches doing well the work for which they had been established. They were highly regarded in the community. Membership had kept up remarkably well being more than 96,000. The military training system.-for the adoption of which the New Zealand Returned Services’ Association shared the responsibility, was in a very healthy condition. “The units now doing their annual training are. reaching a respectable and theyi look well trained and soldierly,” he said. “New Zealand has never had in peace time so good an Army.