THE SOLDIERS’ MEMORIAL.
(To the Editor.) Sir —in your report this morning- of the meeting- of the Soldiers’ Memorial Committee, you credit me with having stated that I supported the erecting ot a column in the Square. I did nothing of the sort. I never supported a column, and to say the least of it, considering the importance of the subject matter under discussion, the report might have expressed the sentiment that was behind the discussion. A cenotaph is supposed to be an emptytomb. and the whole discussion ot the meeting last night was that one should be erected after the style of the one erected at Whitehall, London, the intention being that it would remind people of the immense sacrifice ot life made by our boys during the war, and be a sacred memorial to their memory. I would go so far as to say thm if this proposal is carried out. the land on which it is built should be consecrated, so that the rising generation may be taught to treat this memorial with reverence and solemnity, and iealise the tremendous sacrifices that were made on Palmerston, June 17.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 1562, 18 June 1920, Page 7
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191THE SOLDIERS’ MEMORIAL. Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 1562, 18 June 1920, Page 7
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