WAR MEMORIALS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19948, 17 May 1928, Page 11

WAR MEMORIALS.

■ «*■ MUSEUM IN WELLINGTON. CAMPAIGN TO RAISE £IOO,OOO. [BT TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) "WELLINGTON, Wednesday. For some time the Government has kept open a standing offer to give a site at Mount Cook, Wellington, and £IOO,OOO for a National War Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, if the citizens of Wellington would subscribe another £IOO,OOO. The Mayor, Gr. G. A. Troup, informed a meeting held yesterday that £56,000 had already been subscribed in sums of £IOOO to £15,000. A strong committee was set up to push the campaign. Subscriptions will be invited from outside Wellington, as the War Memorial is a national matter. DARGAVILLE BAND ROTUNDA, DEDICATION BY MR. COATES. [BY TELEGRAPH. —SrECIAL REPORTER. J DAKGAVLLLE, Wednesday. In keeping with tlie uimy tradition that joy should tollow sorrow, and that the luueral dirge should give way to the inspiring quick step, Dargaville lias chosen a band rotunda as the perpetual reminder to its people of the men who did not come back trom the Great War. The first lively programme was given from beneath its shade this afternoon, after the Prime Minister, Mr. Coates, had dedicated the rotunda to its purpose, and Mrs. Coates had unveiled the memorial tablet.

The band of the 15th North Auckland Regiment headed a march of the Territorials through the streets, and the ceremony was attended by a large concourse of people. Mr. Coates, in his speech, said that we owed our freedom to the men who had responded to the Empire's call. There was need to-day to remember these men, and be ready to combat subversive influences in the community, which were always ready to rise in times of depression.