A STATUE OF LORD NELSON

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 13 December 1932, Page 6

A STATUE OF LORD NELSON

(To tHe Editor! Sir,- —-On page ,696 of the “Illustrated London News” for 29th October, there is a picture of Lord Nelson’s, statue in Trafalgar Square, ...Bridgetown,. , the capital of Barbados Island, West Indies. Underneath it are the words, “the second statue of Nelson, ever erected in the Empire.” If these last words ' mean, as they appear to mean, that there are at present only the two statues, the one in London,, and, this one in “the Sugar Island of the West”—Barbados—in the whole of tlie British Empire, might t ot this City ,of Nelson take in hand the erection of a third statue? Particularly as tiie City of Nelson has Lord Nelson’s crest and* motto “Palmam qui meruit ferat”? We have a, suitable spot for its erection— the- < summit, of the little hill, where is the stone that marks “the centre of New Zealand.” It is 4 matter worthy of thought and enterprise. His famous sentence, “England expects etc.,” is perhaps our chief heritage from his life, and has rung down through many years since his death, and is there any corner of our Empire in which: they have not been'.quoted? It would he'pleasing to he able to send from Nelson, to the “Illustrated London News” a photograph of “the third statue of Nelson ever erected in the Empire.” It would he still more phasing if such a statue was erected by the combined efforts of pupils past and piese„t of our Sol,on Nelson,. 12th December. . .