WAR MEMORIAL MUSEUM

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 10066, 3 August 1925, Page 5

WAR MEMORIAL MUSEUM

UNVEILED AT AUCKLAND

PRESS ASSOCIATIONO AUCKLAND, Aug. 2. The foundation stone of the Auckland War Memorial Museum to cost £220,OUO, was laid yesterday by tlie Prime -Minister, the Hon. J. G. Coates. Sir Janies Gunson, chairman of the Citizens’ Committee, said the £32,000 from the sale of the old museum buildings would be devbtcd solely to furnishing and equipping the inew museum. The emu of £27,000 was still required to complete the sum of £222,000 required. Air. Coates said in years to come the memorial could serve as a w.arning to all of what war really meant. It and other memorials would not only do honor to the men who fell, but would stand as a reminder that war was to be avoided provided honor was maintained. Ho reviewed New Zealand’s part in the war, and referred to the necessity for cultivating a good understanding with our neighbors in the Pacific, referring particularly to the convoying of the N.Z. troops by the Japanese and the approaching visit of the American fleet. Major-General Melville, who spoke, saying no memorial was too good for those who fought and gave their all.