SOLDIERS’ MEMORIAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 193, 20 July 1925, Page 9

SOLDIERS’ MEMORIAL.

(To tho Editor.) Sir, —The proposal, to place the soldiers’ memorial in the dead centre of the Square, as apparently decided upon by a few influential citizens, seems to bo contrary to common sense in so far as future generations are concerned. Fancy erecting a memorial in tho dead centre of what undoubtedly will be the great main north roa-d from Wellington. One can imagine the comments of future citizens as to the shortsighted policy of our council. Recently, they have removed the lamp-standards (at. some cost, too) from tho road centre, and’ probably when some councillor collides at a corner, they will replace them, or a substitute, to regulate the ever-increasing motor traffic, and so on. One smiles at the simplicity of the ratepayers generally; anyhow, one is assured they are getting the representation they voted for. As a town containing many monuments of municipal muddlement, ours is some town; take, for instance, the 11.8. building. Why, in future yenrs the ratepayers will have to pay huge compensation when a live' council makes Coleman place a safe entrance to the Square. Erect tho memorial by all means where the pressing needs of tho future will not compel its being shifted elsewhere.

Should the railway be moved, then why not allow for tho linking up of the great north road and thereby avoid the awful congestion so noticeable in all towns which have adopted the short-sighted policy. Trusting others better able to pen or voice a protest against this absurd proposal, that is, to place the soldiers’ memorial right in what will be the dead-centre of tho track of future generations.—l am, etc., MALCONTENT.