QUEEN VICTORIA MEMORIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXI, Issue 12636, 24 March 1905, Page 3

QUEEN VICTORIA MEMORIAL.

THE UNVEILING CEREMONY. Per I*i*« Association. DUNEDIN, March 23. ;" The Queen Victoria memorial statue in Victoria Gardens, or the Triangle, as it is Vnoiyn, was unveiled to-day by Lord Plunk#t, in the presence of a gathering of 10,000 persons. The statue, pedestal and basement cost nfore than £3OOO. A member of the committee became personally responsible for the £SOO duty, a promise haying been received that it would be refunded'. ' Sir H. J. Stiller, after briefly tracing the movement which lad to the JBjpiQrial, asked His Excellency'to nnveil the : statue, which is the work of Mr Hampton, a rising sculptor. His Excellency complied with the request, and then addressed the assemblage, referring, to the manner in which the late Queen had carried out her duties so as to endear herself- to all.- - The Hon. Colonel Pitt followed, and took advantage of the occasion to congratulate Otago on its 's7th anniversary, contrasting Dunedin now with what it was on the occasion of his first visit in 1&61. Mr A. Bathgate, chairman of the memorial committee, then handed over charge of the statue to. the Deputy-Mayor (Mr Scott), for the city. A vote of thanks to the Governor and cheers concluded the proceedings. . There was a good muster of volunteers and cadets—there were 918 school cadets, 223 defence cadets, 345 infantry battalion aid 155 brigade troops, total 1647, independent of the Otago Hussars, who provided the escort. ;