The Proposed Statue of Her Late Majesty. TO THE EDITOR.

Otago Witness, Issue 2456, 10 April 1901, Page 28

The Proposed Statue of Her Late Majesty. TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, — May an Aucklandcr offer a few remaiks excited by a pleasant paiagraph m " Passing Notes " having reference to the proposed statue of her late Majesty. Should it represent our lamented Sovereign in the prime of life or in her leverend age Your correspondent inclines to the latter for several reasons. In the first place, such a statue — supposing the period c. the Diamond Jubilee to be fixed upon, would: la itself bo a memorial not only of the Empire's growth, but of the Victorian eia itself, Us scientific discoveries, and literary and artistic development — i** achievement in general up to the close of our wondeiful nineteenth century. Progress might or might not be indicated in the memorial itself, but in any case imagination should be powerfully appealed to m such work, and might not both be happily combined if in the City of Dunedin, upholding 1 high and noble Scots tiaditions, a figxire, one of the most venerable in time, should stand forth, her hand upon the Holj Scripture— basis of oiu own and Britain's gieatness— .md her gaze upon her people, thus symbolising our strength in the past and oui hope tor the future Is this not an opportunity for le a din S our newer generation to review the good old. path? It seems to the writer that such an exhibition might do much to check the sweeping tide of frivolous irreverence and encourage a more seiious new of life and duty. — I am, eto.. '" % Josca JcoEi^tf.