A SUGGESTION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 511, 25 September 1922, Page 7

A SUGGESTION.

TO THE EOITOR. Sir,—Palmerston is the beautiful beginning of a noble city. Its centre is gay with flowers and fragrant with their sweet incense,, brilliant with sparkling waters. Biit, black, bitter and sinister, broods what must be the hideous reminder of ghastly deeds to the shell-shocked soldier, and to all of us a menace and a token of “man’s inhumanity to man,” which has indeed “made countless thousands mourn.” Those dear- ones who suffered “the last penalty” on those far off fields of blood could they return would surely say, “It was for her sweet peacefulness we most loved this dear land of New Zealand ‘so far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife,’ and lo! you have brought this loathsome thing to your midst.” Surely Christmas Day, if the title of “Prince of Peace” bo not a. misnomer, would ho appropriate for a grand procession of citizens, school children, nil, to drug tliis beastly gun to the river, and hurl it from sight for ever.—l am, etc., VISITOR. P.S.—ln ono quarter of London I see they propose to clear away the gun and plant shrubs.