WELLINGTON WAR MEMORIAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20330, 11 February 1928, Page 12

WELLINGTON WAR MEMORIAL.

NEW SITE RECOMMENDED. (Per Unit ■ Press Association.) WELLINGTON, February 10. In view of the altered circumstances an entirely now site for the Wellington citizens’ war memorial is recommended by Mi' S. Hurst Eeagcr, the well-known architect and town-planner, _in a report he lias forwarded to the Prime Minister (Mr J. G. Coatee) at the instance of the Government. In 1926 Mr Seagcr, in a report submitted to the then Acting Prime Minister (Mr W. D. Stewart) recommended in preference to the site adjacent to Parliament grounds that the memorial should be erected on the Mount Cook site and form part of the scheme embodying the National War Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, including a campanile. The location for the citize is memorial now suggested by Mr Seager is at the south end of Kent and Cam bridge terraces, between the fence of ?,) le Basin Reserve and the footpath anu on the exial line of the garden .between them. Thus the Mount Cook site would be left available for the national memorial together with the Museum, Art Gallery, and Campanile, in connection with which scheme an improved rearrangement of layout is suggested. The Prime Minister considers the report of such general interest and impottance that he has handed a copy to the press for publication at the earliest possible moment in order that the recommendations may be available for public information and discussion.