MEMORIAL TO LORD HAIG.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20842, 8 April 1931, Page 6

MEMORIAL TO LORD HAIG.

THE/ UNWANTED HORSE. ! MORE SEVERE CRITICISM. I FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] LONDON. Feb. 26. At the annual conference of the Metropolitan area of the British Legion, a resolution, unanimously carrier], recorded the conference s dislike of the two models of the statue of c,arl Haig, "seeing that they do not portray the late field marshal as he was known to those who fought under h;m." It was suggested that neither model bo accepted, and that the commission bo submitted to open competition throughout the country, with 110 restrictions cn design. Sir lan Hamilton said that he had seen both models, and neither showed the figure or the face of the man thoy knew. Jhe first horse was a hippopotamus, and the second a giraffe. ',' l don't, know that the statue should be necessarily an equestrian one," Major Cohen said. "It might be one of him standing 'up with his hands behind his back, as we so often saw him, or it.might be one of him sitting at a desk." . r ?ir lan Hamilton recalled that he commanded a native cavalry regiment in India at the time when Lord Haig was Inspector-General of Horse. "It was my to buy. horses, and if I had dared to buy a horse like these two, or had Bhown him a man sitting on a horse like these two things, I should have been kicked of "my job by Lord Haig."