MEMORIALS IN FRANCE.
NEW ZEALAND PROPOSAL.
DESIGNS FOR MONUMENT.
The question of a New Zealand war ', memorial in France wag ■ referred to by Dr. A. W. AveriU, Anglican Bishop of Auckland,* at St. Mary's Hall, Parnell> in describing • his visit to the battlefields on the Western - front*., He said he found that Vimy Ridge had been purchased by"Canada.for the purposes of a memorial to her soldiers,""that Delville Wood had similarly been acquired by South Africa, and that Pozieres and Pass-' chendaele were to be the location of Australian memorials. Where did the New Zealanders come in? ' Where was our national memorial in France? When he thought of what our boys .did in France his mind was much agitated, and he saw the High Commissioner, Sir James Allen, m London. Sir James was able to assure' him that he had secured a site between High . Wood and Delville Wood, where' six roads met, and' that he had. got a design' for a monument ■to be erected there. He also proposed to have memorials at lie Quesnoy, at Messines, and in Belgium. Bishop Averill said he was greatly pleased to find that Sir James Allen was so very keen about the 'matter (-and had already made the arrangements he had.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17649, 9 December 1920, Page 8
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