MEMORIAL MUSEUM

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 638, 15 April 1929, Page 14

MEMORIAL MUSEUM

RETURNED SOLDIERS’ PROTEST NO MEMORIAL FEATURES ‘•Your executive feels that when the sum of over £.200,000 was collected in the name of the dead soldiers it is only right that the memorial features of which so much was made, and which were very definitely promised, should be insisted upon.' 1 THIS opinion is.expressed in the annual report of the Auckland Returned Soldiers’ Association, to be presented at the meeting on Tuesday, April 30. “Your executive has been and is still very exercised in its mind in regard to the War Memorial Museum. It will be remembered that in the winning; design appeared a Court of Honour and a Cenotaph, outside the building, and inside a Hall of Memories and a roll of honur. Last year it was discovered that these memorial features had been jettisoned. A strong protest was made, but no satisfaction was obtained. “Instead of an inspiring memorial as shown in the design, we have a huge museum, and on each succeeding Anzac Day we have to pay our respects to our fallen pals by saluting a temporary cenotaph.” Your executive feels that it has every Digger behind it in this matter, and suggests that as many as can do so visit the museum and see for themselves how much is museum and how much is war memorial.”