WAR MEMORIAL.
SITE FOR WELLINGTON. CONCESSION”BY CABINET. (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION. 1 WELLINGTON, June 17. For some time the question of erecting a Wellington Avar memorial has been hung up because of the unsuitability of the proposed site. Yesterday the matter was considered by Cabinet, and at the conclusion of the meeting the Premier announced that Cabinet had de’cided to accede to the War Memorial Committee’s request that the sit© in Parliament. Gardens, originally chosen by the R.S.A. for thbir Cenotaph. be permanently set apart for Wellington’s war memorial. The Memorial Committee have a. sum of £15,000 in hand, and it is considered, now that the site has been definitely fixed, that there Avill be no difficulty in collecting the balance of the objective, which Avas £25,000, which will enable them to erect a symbolical memorial that will fittingly perpetuate the memory of those gallant soldiers who laid down their lives in the Empire’s cause.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 17 June 1924, Page 11
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