KING'S MEMORIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIII, Issue 14363, 1 December 1910, Page 5

KING'S MEMORIAL.

;i —— ;[ SOO SUGGESTIONS RECEIVED. ■> i - 1 ] Tiie first meeting of the General , Committee of tho Mansion House Fund .' for providing :■„ memorial of King Kd- '_ I ward in Loudon \v:is liold last, month, r j under the presidency of the Lord . I Mayor at the Mansion House. | j In opening ilie proved ings the Lord Mayor .said the Idmh li.--t of names on i j tile' Mansion HuuseYommittce showed .- i.hat an e:;eei!out foundation had been 5 I laid for thoir scheme. He felt certain j h:iviuir regard to tho many interests represented on the committee, that, it j would not be difficult to raise tho no- > I cessnry funds for suitably providing a - I memorial in ihe Metropolis worthy of * the late King. It was most important " ) ana, in fact, imperatively essential, if 1 tho Fund was to lx> successful, that i the form of tho memorial should keenly ' fippe.T? to the sentiments of London as '. a whole. The Committee would see, • that mere than TOO succestions had ;d- ---' ready been made, by the public as to i what that form should be. Many of " | ther-p w."ro unsuitable and impractie- ' ' n'l'c—MW ebvi'iuslv ecpntric—hut all, " I he felt sure, would receive such oon- ; ; -M.-r.,t>.. •■ = ;l-v deserved at the ! I 1->..n cf <],,. Kye-uTiv.- Committee . j wh,,:n t'-ev were m-t to anooint that On the motion of Sir William Bull, "U.T\. v A ,. o!l dii.l by Col. Sir Tfionor I l'j'rfciiijrfnn. it was resolved to form , nn executive committo'- f> consider the nature of the nronos-"d memorial, and I fo b»:...r nn ■' renort of +h o .; r recom-n-eno'+:'"is there"u to the general . committee at a future meeting.