BATTLES OF GREAT WAR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19349, 9 June 1926, Page 16

BATTLES OF GREAT WAR.

NEW ZEALAND MEMORIALS. DESCRIPTION BY LECTURES, | MANY MAGNIFICENT VIEWS. [by telegraph.—own correspondent.] WELLINGTON. Tuesday. As a large majority of the people of the Dominion will never have an opportunity of seeing the New Zealand Government battle exploit memorials erected in France, Belgium and Gallipoli, the announcement that the Minister of Internal Affairs, Hon. E- F. Bollard, has arranged a lecture tour on the subject by Mr. Hurst Seager, R.F.1.8.A., F.N.Z.1.A., will be welcomed not only by returned soldiers, but by the relatives and friends of those who fell in the Great War. Mr. Seager, who designed and supervised the erection of these handsome memorials, will speak here to-morrow and on Thursday, and admission will be free. The lecture will be illustrated by some 230 lantern slides, reproduced from photographs taken by Mr. Seager as the work of erecting the memorials proceeded. The speaker will also .describe much of the excellent work in the overseas cemeteries as carried out by the Imperial War Graves Commission. Although the monuments and cemeteries are the principal subjects in a series of 60 slides on Gallipoli; the general condition of the peninsula as it appears to-day is made quite clear. In the Western theatre of the war a series of seventeen slides relates to the Longueval memorial, showing in particular the unveiling ceremony held on October 8, 1922. Another series of 35 shows the country about before the restoration _of the soil,, began,,,;the panorama" from the site of the Messines .niemorial and the, unveiling by His Majesty the King of the Belgians on August 1, 1924. The unveiling of the Gravenstafel memorial on the following day by Sir James Allen is well illustrated. Some 90 slides are devoted to the Le Quesnoy memorial. These show the surrounding of the site, the progress of construction of. the New Zealand garden and tlje beauty of the garden when completed. A further series, illustrates the unveiling ceremony on July 15, 1923, when the people of the town marched "m 1 -procession to the memorial site. The French memorial in the centre of the town is also illustrated, showing the French inscription on their own memorial: "And to the memory of the officers, n.c.o's, and men of the New Zealand Division, who died in the deliverance of this village on November 4, 1918." GERMAN-MADE LANTERN. USE FOR MEMORIAL LECTURES. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS.ASSOCIATION.] BLENHEIM, Tuesd ay, ; A reporter discovered during a lecture on war memorials by Mr. Hurst Seager that the New Zealand .Government was giving a wrong lead, in supporting ai German industry. I'he Department of Internal Affairs, under whose auspices the lectpre was given', had sent for illustration purposes a new German-made lantern, 'Even the book of instructions accompany-, ing the lantern was in the German language.