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Otago Witness, Issue 2106, 5 July 1894, Page 16

FREE LIBRARY. It is creditable to the' common sense of Dunedinites that the Free Library form is so strongly supported for the Stuart memorial. Statuary of the kind we contemplate in the prettiest parts of the city is often a huge advertisement for the living, and a casual reference only to the dead. If more pillars are needed, and there is no room for them in the cemeteries, why not erect one in some conspicuous place, with an octagonal base ? The name of the person to be commemorated might be inscribed in "small caps" round the top plinth — say 20ft above the street level, — or omitted altogether if advertisers objected — and the eight faces of the base might be let by auction to enterprising advertisers. We should then ensure variety, and something worth studying. One side could be lettered in letters of gold, " Wear the Waterbury Watch. The greatest blessing of the age. Accurate, stylish, and durable," &c , &c, whilst the other Bpaces might contain eloquent references to Speight's beer, Beecham's pills, Thomson's sodawater, and other stomachic comforts.

A contemporary says : "We may yet see the football rules amended bo that the player may take the ball in one hand, a gun in the other, and walk to the goal."