WELLINGTON’S WAR MEMORIAL
SITE FINALLY DECIDED ON
(United Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, This Day
For some time the question of erecting Wellington’s war memorial has been hung up because of the unsuitability of the proposed site. \'esterday the matter was considered by Cabinet and at the conclusion of the meeting the Premier announced that Cabinet bad decided to accede to the War Memorial Committee’s reciuest that the site in the Parliament Gardens originally chosen by the Returned Soldiers’ Association for their cenotaph be permanently set apart for Wellington’s war memorial. The memorial committee have a sum of £15,000 in hand and it is considered that now a site has been definitely fixed there will be no difficulty in collecting th© balance of the objective, which was £25,000, which will enable them to erect a symbolical memorial that will fittingly 'perpetuate the. memory of those gallant soldiers who laid down their lives in the Empire’s caijsc.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 17 June 1924, Page 6
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