STRATFORD WAR MEMORIAL

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1924, Page 13

STRATFORD WAR MEMORIAL

In considering perpetuating the memory of those men of Stratford who served and fell in the Great War, the Memorial Committee decided to call for competiCve , designs for the erection of a memorial. Fourteen designs were received from various < parts of the Dominion, and that of Mr. Bernard W. Johns, son of Mr. H. T. Johns, architect, Wellington, was 'placed first. The memorial will be, constructed of New Zealand marble, and takes the form of entrance gates to the Public Park, beautiful in its simplicity, as befits a work of this kind. The central motif is an arch wide enough to allow for the passage of cars, flanked by side wings, wiih entrance gates for pedestrians. -Two name tablets in Silician nkrble will bear the names of the fallen, while two bronze wreaths above will keep their nanles ever green, i The stones at_ the crown of, the Wch are arranged in the form' of a crow, "the everlasting arms and hope' etertc.il." The architect has received instructions to call tenders for the work, and * to be congratulated on his conception at a memorial which will remain an tvori^Ung^ tMtimany to thone who g»Yi all i<* ilseir country.