WAR MEMORIAL

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12196, 22 July 1925, Page 6

WAR MEMORIAL

CARILLON TURNED DOWN TO BE ENTIRELY SYMBOLICAL. The question of the erection of n campanile and carillon as 1 the Wellington Citizens’ War Memorial, was considered at a meeting of the Citizens’ War Memorial Committee last night. Those present were: Messrs J. P. ■Firth, C.M.G. (chairman), C. A. L. Treadwell, D. J. McGowan, G. Mitchell, A. W. Pascoe, D. E. Dustin, E. E. Muir, F. Downes, B. Van Staveren, \V. S, Wilson, A. Jolly, T. Forsyth, Mesdaraes Murphy, McHugh, and Parton, and Major Watson (lion. sec.). A letter was received from the Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Association condemning the proposal to erect a carillon, and urging the committee to proceed forthwith with tho original proposal to erect a silent symbolical memorial on tho Parliamentary Grounds site. The subcommittee (comprising Messrs Mitchell and Muir) which had been specially appointed for the purpose submitted a lengthy report on the question of the proposed carillon. After a lengthy discussion it was unanimously resolved: “That it ho recorded and announced that this mceting of the Wellington Citizens’ War Memorial Committee, having considered tho report of the sub-eommitteo on the question of tho carillon, reaffirms its former resolutions that a silent symbolical memorial he erected on the Parliamentary Grounds site.” Final correspondence was received from Mr W. H. Gummer, the committee’s expert adviser, regarding the' conditions of the competition for competitive designs, and it was anticipated that theso will be announced in the immediate future.