HORSES HELPED WITH SYDNEY CENOTAPH

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 119, 10 August 1927, Page 9

HORSES HELPED WITH SYDNEY CENOTAPH

17-TON BLOCK OF GRANITE Horses in Martin Place—2o of them—restively champing their bits and snapping unusual noises out of the concrete, attracted a huge crowd when the main stone of the Sydney Cenotaph, the memorial to fallen soldiers, sailors, and nurses, was laid finally on to the foundation of 22 other stones. SEVENTEEN tons of granite was an impressive spectacle, and the task of removing it and setting it presented to lay minds a fascinating problem. It didn’t seem as though any power on earth would shift that squat slab of stone over which even motor trucks had little power. That was why horses fumed and stamped in Martin Place. The stone demanded a special vehicle, rather awkward for motor transport. The team managed it easily enough, however. From the boat which brought it to Sydney from the Moruya quarries—the quarries that provide abutments for the bridge—the team hauled the stone in about an hour. In three hours it was resting on the bed of mortar that will hold it for all time.