PEACE MEMORIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17269, 19 September 1919, Page 4

PEACE MEMORIAL.

Sir, —I presume the subject of the peace (or war) memorial is still open for discussion, and I submit for the consideration of your readers the following : Erected on the summit of the Andes in South America at 14,000 ft above the sea-level on the line which divides the Argentine Republic from Chili, stands the colossal statue of Christ— as the Christ of the Andes, with a cross in his left band and the right raised as if blessing the world. The statue is made from old bronze cannon left by the Spaniards. This is the memorial which commemorates the arbitration by both nations of the boundary question that more than once endangered their mutual peace. Rangitoto is the most conspicuous and extraordinaryfeature of Auckland's harbour and city. Why not erect on its summit—or on the most prominent —another statue of the Christ as sur noblest ideal of the peacemaker? He is acceptable to all. To the Christian as the Savour; to the Hebrew as an honoured one of their race : to the non-Christian as the preacher of the sermon on the Mount. Furthermore, there is question just now, of some change being made with the beacon-light in the Rangitoto Channel. Could not this light be removed and attached in some manner to such a noble monument, and thus give us a fitting, and inspiring peace memorial, of which we and the generations to come will have cause to be proud. Head.