THE MTDDLEMARCH WAR MEMORIAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17657, 21 June 1919, Page 7

THE MTDDLEMARCH WAR MEMORIAL.

TO THE EDITOB. Sm,-Surely Mr W. D. Mason does not flatter himself ho has made satisfying assertions"? y MlfiW6r tbeSo ques- -- If, as Mr B. Ir-win says, "he moved at a meeting m October, 1916, that the committee establish a fund, tho object beint? tho erection of a monument," why. when asked at the meeting on tho'l6th May to produce or read the minutes where it had been decided to erect a monument, the secretary (Mr Mason) could find none? 2. Why, when collectors came to me and others, we were told we'would havo a say in deciding the form (kind) of memorial? o. Why did the chairman of the meotin«say tho mover (Mr Irwin) 'had favoured a monument, but it was open for discussion ao the present meeting, and why were suggestions called for? 4. Wily did the chairman listen to three subscribers giving their suggestions (which, by the_ -way, all favoured another form of memorial than a monument) before ruling them, out of order? " 5. Why did the chairman say it were better, before putting my suggestions as a resolution, to hear aJJ suggestions first' j 6. What was the idea in calling the meot- | in-r on May 16 last to decide "what form I tho memorial would take"- if this had i ? Co^i n , B to m Irron's-letter, been decided in J.yj.ol ! Sir this subject of a memorial is as ] sacred to me and as interesting to me as it , is to Mr Mason, and I am only very sorry l that the whole business has not been done < in tho proper way with the proper spirit. As far as I am concerned this correspondence ceases.—l am, etc., R. N. Elliott, Hon. See, I « e? a *™° tlc ™d Reception Committee, ■otrathavon," Middlemarch, June 18