THE SOLDIERS’ MEMORIAL AT WAKEFIELD.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 123, 26 May 1919, Page 6

THE SOLDIERS’ MEMORIAL AT WAKEFIELD.

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Sir,—ln reply to “Mother’s” _ rebuke i>f Saturday night, may I point out that a committee appointed publicly, ■with definite instructions, as were the local Memorial Committee, has not the right to revel's© the decisions they were appointed .to give effect to- Further, to attempt to do so now, unless by an almosi unanimous public wish, would certainly not tend to that unity of effort which should, of all things, belong to a proposal .to do, honour to those who fell. “Mother” says: “The Committee) would not. hear of giving up. their scheme or of combining, but on consideration the Committee, though willing to support a well-considered social movement, failed to see that, in a small place like Wakefield, a building could be designed to effectively, adequately and permanently . remind us of our lost heroes, except, by the additional expenditrue of ■a, large sum. For instance, a building may "be erected in honour of the Coronation or any other event, but in time it may not remind us of it very much, though its usefulness may remain the same. 1 hope •we shall all join in such a sacred duty as to honour those who gave their lives, and that we shall do the best possible—the present proposal is very modest—wiithout any differences about- it.—l am, etc,, E. W. HODGSON.