NEW SITE.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10508, 11 February 1928, Page 9

NEW SITE.

FOR WELLINGTON WAR MEMORIAL. MR HURST PEAGKIUS LATENT PLAN. (Press Association.) WELLINGTON. Fob. 10. In view of altered circumstances, an entirely now *ito for (lie Wellington citizens’ war memorial is recommended hy Mr. P. Hursi Pengor. the well-known architect and town planner, in a report he lias forwarded to the Prime Minister, at the instance of the Goverhineiit. In 1020 Mr Pongee in a report: submitted to the then neting-Primc Minister (the Hon. W. D. Stewart), recommended in preference to the site adjacent to the Parliament Grounds. that the memorial should bo erected on the Mount Cook site, and form part of the scheme embodying lhe National War Memorial, Museum and Art Gallery, including a campanile, The location for the citizens’ memorial now suggested bv Mr. Sengnr is at the south-end of Kent and Cambridge Terraces between the fence of tlie Basin Reserve and the footpath, and on the axial line ol the garden between them. Thins, the Mount Cook site would he left available for the national memorial, together with tne museum and art gallery and campanile. in connection with which scheme an improved • i-(--iirrangenient of lavout is suggested. The Prime Minister considers Hie report of such general interest and importance that lie has handed a copy to the Press for publication at the earliest- possible monrent, in order that the recommendations may lie available for public information and discussion.