MONUMENTAL VANITY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13946, 29 April 1909, Page 4

MONUMENTAL VANITY.

, (To the Editor.) Sir, — When; his Excellency tho Governor unveils the monument erected on Marslaml Hill to the memory of thcheroos who died for' thew country, he will at the same time expose to the public vieiv the paltriness o| humar, nature. Four names thas have hitherto been regarded as wortay of the greatest respect will, through an error of judgment or a?i all-conquering desire fcr self-advertisement on the part oi their pos3essorsj be exposed to tho ridicule of the spectators. We know that there are some whose vanity would prompt them to daub their names with a 'tar-brush on the pearly gates of the New Jerusalem. "Oh, the pity of it!'; Might I suggest that, instead of carving tho names of the gentlemen aforesaid on this national monument, and thereby disfiguring it, a special tablet be erected "to perpetuate their: names n little lower down the hill as' close as possible to the enclosure the City Fathers have provided for the rcccntiqn of all strays that wander where they have no right.' More in sorrow than in :;nger I subscribe my good old family name, - "JOHN SMITH."