CAPTURED GERMAN GUNS

Evening Star, Issue 19890, 12 June 1928, Page 11

CAPTURED GERMAN GUNS

TO STAND ON CROWN LANDS LABOUR COUNCIL’S COMPROMISE LPkh United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, Juno 11. The City Council discussed to-night at length tho proposal to move, certain captured Gorman guns from the city reserves. When the proposal came before 'lie council a low weeks ago it was adopted by an overwhelming Labour majority, the _ mayor alone of the party voting against the proposal. The, arguments at that time were that the guns, as emblems of the hatred of war, should be removed from places of public resort. An agitation was raised against the proposal by the R.S.A. and other citizens, and to-night, when the matter came up for final decision, a petition was presented protesting against the removal. Two of the guns stand in front of the Supremo Court on a piece of land which had previously been treated as city land, but which since the controversy began lias been discovered to be Crown land. Cr Sullivan; M.P., proposed, as a compromise that all guns should bo placed on Crown land, and so. removed from the city reserves. The effect of the resolution is that a lew guns will be moved across the river, a distance of less than fUOyds, and into a place of equal prominence and equally frequented by the public.