WELLINGTON MEMORIAL.
PLAN TO RAISE £10,000. [BXIELEGIIAPH.—BHKSS' ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON. Monday. It is announced by the Wellington 'Citizens' War Memorial Committee that after giving the matter most careful consideration, they have decided upon asking the 1 City Council to grant the site of jhe old Turkish baths, behind the Boy Oak Hotel, as an area oh ; which to. erect a citi-r zens' memorial to Wellington' fallen soldiers. - . \ '.'.■':'■■'■y--:^.':■ ' . : Upon such site being- secured the com--mittee will invite: competitive designs for the erection of a monument that will" conform to the present prospective surroundings, audi be ;:ih: every .way a fittingtribute to-the memory of: the ; 1700 ;irie,a; who.fell in the Great War from among the recruits who went from the city and suburbs. - ■ : '
■ The estimated cost of r the memorial " is' : ' £10,000, toward which £2300 is now : available. •'.".■.-;-. : -: J 'i : ..' .' ..''- . l'i\'-/- ■-':-:
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18293, 9 January 1923, Page 6
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