Re Site for To-morrow’s Memorial Service.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 27, 1 February 1901, Page 3

Re Site for To-morrow’s Memorial Service.

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tjiii,—l notice the Borough Councillors were at a loss to know at what place to hold the special service for Saturday next in connection with our deceased Queen, and it has been suggested to hold the service in Gladstone Road at the lirebell tower if the weather permits, and in the meantime to divert the traflie. Now, sir, had the Beautifying Association taken a more progressive and business-like view of the substantial offers that wore made some six months or more ago towards improving the river hank from bridge to bridge, and that work had been proceeded with at the time, which it certainly would have been and completed by now only for the Beautifying Association, might I ask your readers if they could picture a more ideal place to hold such a ceremony as is proposed to beheld to-morrow than in the arm of the rivers behind the Loan Company’s buildings, and where the relics of some unsightly buildings now stand ? Had the intended work been faithfully carried out the sloping banks would have greatly added to the advantages of the place by enabling those who are to address such a large gathering to be heard to hotter advantage liy the great number of people that will undoubtedly be there. Sir, I would again appeal to those of your readers who have at heart the true progress of our town to see that the .Beautifying Association, or any other association, do not obstruct any such beneficial work without at least showing some good reason for so doing, and I trust if the weather is line that thqsc who were active in opposing the larger work on the river bank will attend at to-morrow's gathering and ask themselves if it is right for a progressive town like this to bo compelled to hold such it ceremony in our main public road, causing all traliic to be stopped, and at the same time t-hev would oblige mo if they would ask themselves, if the larger river work had been carried out would it have provided a hotter place for such a ceremony titan our main street. —I am, etc.,

W. Douglas Lvs.n'ak,