WAR TROPHIES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 12 June 1928, Page 9

WAR TROPHIES.

REMOVAL DISCUSSED AT CHRISTCHURCH.

[BY TELEGRAPH PRESS Y&HODIATI3N.] CHRISTCHURCH, June 11. The City Council discussed to-night at length a proposal to move certain captured German guns from -the City reserves. When the proposal came before the council a few weeks ago, it was carried by an overwhelming Labour majority, the jVLayor alone- of tli© party voting against the proposal. Arguments at that time were that the guns, an emblem of wars and hate, should be removed from places of public resort. An agitation was raised against the proposal by the R.S.A. and other citizens and to-night, when the matter came up for final decision as to where the guns should be moved to, a petition was presented protesting against their removal. Two of the guns are actually in front of the Supreme Court on a piece of land which had previously been treated as city land, but which, since the controversy began, has been discovered to be Crown land.

Councillor Sullivan, M.P., proposed as a compromise that all the guns be placed on Crown land, and so be removed from the city reserves, the effect of the resolution being that a few guns will be moved across the river, a distance of less than 100 yards and into a place of equal prominence and equally frequented by the public.