MEMORIAL TO BRAVE DEAD.
THE WHITEHALL CENOTAPH
(Elec. Tel. Copyright— United Press Assn.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association), i (Received August 14, 2.55 p.m.) . I LONDON, August 12. \ A movement is afoot to erect replicas of the Whitehall cenotaph in various towns in the United Kingdom. It is also intended to make the centotaph thetype for a memorial . throughout the Empire. Mr Lutyens states he .would gladly make the design available for Australasian cities. It is roughly estimated the cost of erection would be fifteen to twenty thousand pounds. I Australian and New Zealand soldiers 1 are among daily throngs paying homage at the Whitehall cenotaph, which has touched the public imagination. j The base of the cenotaph ig smother-' ed with wreaths. • The Government have decided, in obedience to public demand, to erect the cenotaph in a permanent form in Whitehall. i
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14987, 14 August 1919, Page 6
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