"OUR BELLS IN ENGLAND."

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 3, 4 January 1930, Page 14

"OUR BELLS IN ENGLAND."

A Newcustle schoolgirl sends, us a happy appreciation of th« action of the New Zealand Government In allowing thl fine carillon of 49 belli oa»t In England for a Peace Memorial at Wellington to be heard on the Town Moor, Newcastle, through the duration of the North-Eatt Coast Exhibition there. , :'The departure of the carillon will causo much natural regret, she says. Hundreds have gathered on the Moor on Sunday nights to hear the special reoi--ttls- '.■■'• ': '' '■'": ". ,':;'.' ,:- ] Many of the bells have been given by i 'the parents of sons who fell In the war. i The belli are named, and tht larger onti..;] have quotations on them. The Seven ] Seat says: "Cherish me as a tribute to i the British Mercantile Marine." I Our correspondent feels it is fine that ! tho chimes of these bells should have J been broadcast across the Seven Seas so I that they have already sent their mes- I sago ahead to their destination. j | The idea of allowing, these bells to be I heard in the Mother Country .before they j go out to the Daughter Country,' keeps ! warm the kindred hearts on each side of { tho world. |