MEMORIAL HIGHWAY

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28776, 23 December 1958, Page 19

MEMORIAL HIGHWAY

R.S.A. Views

Support for a “striking, simple, but not costly” 1939-1945 war memorial for the Memorial highway from Clyde road to Christchurch Airport was given by the, Christchurch Returned Services’ Association executive committee last evening. The committee discussed the highway very briefly, but no support for the proposed tall concrete fins was voiced. The subject was raised by the

president (Mr A. Farrar) who said he had discussed it with the chairman of the Memorial Highway Committee (Mr W. W. Laing). A voice: We do not want to get tied up with the fins. Mr D. Barrett said he had already expressed his views about memorials to the dead. “We should be looking after the living but for future generations there should be something —not a fin—that would indicate to them the road was a memorial —something simple.” Members: I agree. Hear, hear. Mr Farrar said that was the tenor of what he had told Mr Laing. He said he would rather I see money spent to help depen-' dants and those needing assistance than money spent on a big memorial. The executive committee made its decision on a motion by Mr Barrett.

Maggots in Saveloy.—For selling a saveloy containing maggots, a New Plymouth fish shop proprietor, Joseph Luke Radich, was fined £lO by Mr A. W. Yortt, S.M., in the New Plymouth Magistrate’s Court yesterday.—(PJL> r