WELLINGTON’S WAR MEMORIAL.
SITE IN PARLIAMENT GARDENS (Feb United Press Association.) , WELLINGTON, June 17. For some time the question of erecting Wellington’s war memorial has been hung up because of the unsuitability of the proposed site. Yesterday the mutter was considered by Cabinet, and at the conclusion of the meeting the Prime Minister announced that Cabinet had decided to accede to the War Memorial Committee’s request that the site in Parliament gardens originally chosen by the Returned Soldiers’ Association for its cenotaph be permanently set apart for Wellington’s war memorial. The Memorial Committee has a sum of £16,000 in hand, and it is considered that now the site has been definitely fixed there will be no difficulty in collecting the balance of the objective, which was £25,000, a sum that will enable the of a symbolical memorial that will fittingly perpetuate the memory of those gallant soldiers who laid down their lives in the Empire’* cause.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19201, 18 June 1924, Page 5
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