WELLINGTON'S BELLS

Evening Post, Issue 113, 10 November 1930, Page 8

WELLINGTON'S BELLS

Reading the comments from the London Press reprinted in "The Post" last night, one cannot doubt that the singing tower in Hyde Park has been a splendid advertisement for New Zealand. Before it went to London it proved one of the greatest attractions at the Newcastle Exhibition. To-day comes a request that the bells should be lent again for the British Exhibition at Buenos Ayres. As Wellington is not yet ready to receive the carillon, and it would have to be stored in the meantime, the society will probably raise no objection. But the further request for a loan of the bells must remind us that up to the present the only Wellingtonians who have heard the music of the Wellington War Memorial Carillon are those who have been to London or Newcastle. When the carillon is finally shipped here, whether direct from London or by way of Buenos Ayres, it is to be hoped the Carillon Society will not be bothered with the problem of finding storage for it for months or even years. The campanile cannot be ready in a month or two, but let the storage period be as short as possible. Wellington people have been generous and very patient, waiting to see the Art Gallery, Museum, and Campanile, and to hear the bells. There is an old saying:' "Hope deferred maketh the heart sick," and, in slang phraseology, people will be heartily sick of giving if their hope of seeing and hearing the gift: is much longer deferred. 1