FOR REMEMBRANCE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11749, 8 February 1919, Page 4

FOR REMEMBRANCE.

A MILITARY MEMOKIiJ, CHAPEL. The desire to immortalise \ battlefields where New Zealt soldiers have died, is very strcng almost every heart. At Trenti Camp, for example, there is & i, line of stone-enclosed ro?ebeds, i on each flower bed is a stones curries the name of a battle It is a beautiful thought, forvrb ever the roses bloom it ia lifo fresh blaze of glory fur those i fell, another wreath of flowers tj thier far-off graves. The organisers of the appeal funds to build an Anglican Cali dral in Wellington have th« si purpose in miud, and the Catbed will embody all the natural ho and griefs and memories «{ ardent, earnest peopls. The» wine of this handsome, maje building will os a soldiers’ mi ial chapel. It will be dedicated St Georg 5, the national saint England, and hors will be eushn ed the names and deeds of the i selfish men, not forgetting i Maori brothers, who left homeii loved cues, and prosperity, too the seas and “fight the great fij with all their might”—and toi in the caueo of freedom. It hut riom been the privilege of tbepetj of a diocese to have an opportwi of erecting as a lasting memorial cathedral gof the splendid ptopi tions of the proposed AnglionnOil edral in Wellington. It will, finished, present a beautiful p tore of lofty spires and delis trecery and solid symmetrical ci tours. In tiio chapel alreadyreS red to there will ha windows ij bnlising the military caiuitgtl which the New Zealander* Hi identifier), which will be known the Gallipoli, Flanders, Pakitii Egypt, etc., windows. There i scarcely be an historical inctdi concerning New Zealand which? no be included in the decent cheme. To assist this worthy pi paign, helpers should coramuma with the organising secretary,! C. F. Askew, St Mark’s Vicirij Wellington, Government Stocks War Certificates may be conltlW Legacies also are invited. Prow of donations may be spread oM period of from ons to five years