TANGIWAI MEMORIAL
Appeal Next Month (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, June 29. A £21,000 Tangiwai Memorial fund is to be raised by a radio-telephone appeal late next month. The appeal will be opened by Mr W. Nash, Member of Parliament for Hutt, who is patron of the memorial fund committee, and Sir Douglas Robb, of Auckland, who is the president. A total of £4OOO will be used to erect a memorial at the scene of the tragedy. The memorial will be the combined work of Mr J. Allen; of the School of Fine Arts, Auckland, and Mr J. Pharzyn, of Hastings. A £17,000 scholarship will be allocated to the Auckland University. Each year the winner of an essay contest on travel safety will receive £7OO.
At present there is no national memorial to mark the tragedy in which 166 persons died when a Welling-ton-Auckland express plunged into the Whangaehu river about 10 p.m. on Christmas Eve, 1953.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30480, 30 June 1964, Page 12
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