FEDERAL CAPITAL MONUMENT

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 48, 26 February 1913, Page 2

FEDERAL CAPITAL MONUMENT

(From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, 22hd February. An imposing monument is to be erected at the Federal capital to mark the commencement of -the work of building the capital. Australia^ and Australia's place in the Empire— that \a what it is intended to portray. The monument will he. hexagonal in plan, and 26 feet 3 inches high. ' It will be erected of specially-selected granite. The, first Course of masonry will consist of six immense blocks, One from each of the original States, their height being 3 feet 5 inches. Rising from this base will be a single entablature ' signifying the Commonwealth. This stone will become the support of stones obtained from Great Britain 'and Ireland, from* which will rise an obelisk. Moreover, a suggestion has been made to England, Scotland, Ireland, India, Canada/ New> Zealand^ South Africa, Newfoundland, and the West Indies that each of these, parts of the Empire should supply a, buttressing stone. On each stone there will be an inscription indicating its place of origin. The foundation-stone is to be laid on 12th March. In fact, there are to be three foundation-stones. It is explained that three of the stones intended to represent the States' will be made foundation-stones, so that the Governor-General, Mr. Fisher, and Mr. O'Malley may all have a finger in this stone pis. Each of these gentlemen will lay a stone well and truly and have his name put on in witness for all time. The base of the monument is already in position. And in the meantime there is a lot of other work going on at the .Federal capital site to give our Oouk monwealth legislators a local' habUatiionr. And the name, it is fully believed, will' be Myola— an aboriginal word meaning "meeting-place." By a ' transposition, of letters you also, get the word "Omaly,'' which very m\tch"' pleases »Mr; O'Malley *i