BATTLE MEMORIATS

Otago Witness, Issue 3571, 22 August 1922, Page 29

BATTLE MEMORIATS

LE QUESNOY AND LONGUEYAL. LONDON, June 23. Mr S Hurst Seager has been over to France again for a few days on business connected with the battle memorials. In Paris he met the Mayor of Le Quesnoy and together they went to see the marble diock for the Le Quesnoy plaque. It is now at the studio of the sculptor and the design will he executed! there. He states that it is an extremely fine piece of marble, and rings like a bell when it is struck. Ike sculptor and his assistants nvill be at the work until the end of September, and then the marble slab will be removed and placed in position in the wall. Mr Hurst Seager paid a visit to -be Quesnoy and found that all the trees and shrubs planted early in the year were flourishing. The New Zealand veronicas were in flower, and the turf that had been laic! on the cutting on the causeway, and in other parts of the memorial works, had become firmly established. The stone for the balustrade is already on the spot and work will proceed shortly. In any ease, it will be completed before the marble slab is ready to put into position. BEST STONE ON THE BATTLEFIELDS. AU the marble for the Longueval monument has now been conveyed to the site. ■Weighing 120 tons, it came from Trieste in five trucks to Albert, and during a. recent, spell of fine weather the roads were hard enough for the heavy traction engines to pass over to the site. The “fixers” have been at work, and already the stone has been laid a.s far as the base of the obelisk. The fixers express the opinion that no better stone has been put into any other monument on tlie battlefields.