WAR MEMORIALS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 214, 4 June 1919, Page 7

WAR MEMORIALS

Sir,—The following extract from a report of the R.A.S. Committee set up in Scotland to advise upon the many divided opinions as to the forms of memorials to commemorate our fallen soldiers can be well applied to New Zealand: —

"It- is ■ pointed -out that: the artistic monument, devoted to the sole purpose of doing honour, to the dead, embodies the feelings of 'their friends and associates in a more direct ami impressive manner than ie possible iu tlu> case of any scheme of an alternative kind. Memorials should be monumental in character rather than buildings of utility only. A modest scheme carried out in the finest and most durable materials with the best workmanship is far preferable to a more' ambitious one less worthily executed, while a simple monument that (ieems to rest naturally in its surroundings may expr&s the character and deeds of those honoured end th 6 homage of the survivqrs with more real force thnn one much more complex and elaborate that makes no emotional nppual. The committee urges :upon all who have monumental projects in hand, to avoid anythiug like haste, Certain preliminary meusuree must no doubt be taken, but in present circumstances undue haste con'only lead to very unsatisfactory results.' , —l am, etc., • VETERAN. • "Wellington, June 3, 1918.