LABOR AND WAR TROPHIES.
A REMARKABLE DISCUSSION AT CHRISTCHURCH.
(Press Association Telegram.!
CHRISTCHURCH, June 17, At the City Council tonight a letter was read from General Robin, Commandant of the Forces, announcing that certain trophies of war had been allotted to Christchurch. The trophies-.had been captured by the Fh-st Cnntcrbury Regiment and the Ihird Battalion ' oiTthe Rifle Brigade. ■ Cr. D. G. Sullivan, the Labour member, said he did not think it was the desire of the Council or the people of this city or the people of New Zealand to take any steps, to perpetuate the spirit of militarism as an outcome of the war. it tiophies should go anywhere let them go to a museum. The aim of the Alhe. was to put an end to militarism m all its forms and he claimed that y putting these ' trophies in a . public place would not assist this. He moved: That the Commandant of the Forces be written to thanking him for the offer and it be suggested to him that the proper, place for ? these things is Canterbury Museum. Cr Flesher moved as a amendmen that the offer of the CpmmandanUbe accepted by the Council, and the Reserves Committee he instructed find a convenient place for them._. ' After a brief discussion the Mayor said no good purposewould he .server hi- prolonging the discussion and 1 the amendment, which was carrie by 12 to 5, the minority being La lion r members. •
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4898, 18 June 1918, Page 5
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