JELLICOE MONUMENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20113, 26 November 1928, Page 10

JELLICOE MONUMENT.

AN \JN AUTHORISED WQRK.

Sgping a workman busy with a pipk and majlet op the asphalt betivepn tjfe Invercargill band qnd the telpphonp Jjooths ip the Post Office Square on elecfipn dpy, an official inquired what was the object of the work on a clay when most people were poncerned with politics. The who had already driven in soma wooden pegs and was about to plijce a wooden paling fence in position, replied that he had been instructed by a well-known local resident to commence preparations for the erection of a monument to Lord Jel}icoc. He was to|d that he could pot proceed with Such an undertaking, for which no permission had been granted. The niatter was then referred to the resident When hp was told that he would not hp allowed to go any" further, as no authority had l?epn granted him, he replied that he had interviewed Mr. Coates and had his psspranca that no objectipn would ho raised. The work, however, has now come to fv standstij). The pegs have been removed and the wooden fenco is lying behind the telephone booths.