Cleaning a war memorial
Sir,—Every month, from early 1915, there assembled at the east end of King Edward Barracks the Canterbury quota’ for the reinforcements of the New Zealand Division. They marched over the former Cashel Street bridge to the station, many of them never to return, for they made the supreme sacrifice. Early in the 19205, that sacrifice was very worthily commemorated by the ■Bridge of Remembrance. Remembrance? Surely that is now a misnomer. Their valour is now commemorated by a grubby memorial. They are forgotten. men and are as though they had never been. In the late 1950 s the university town site buildings and the former Boys’ High School were very expertly restored and cleaned. Let the Bridge be cleaned and their memory shine again. — Yours, etc., H. S. BA VERSTOCK. March 2, 1982.
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