OUR GUN

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3208, 18 September 1934, Page 4

OUR GUN

(To the EditorsSir, —I see that the German Howitzer has been moved to a prominent corner of Victoria Square. That ihay be all very nice and it must have taken a fair amount of labour getting it there; but cannot passers-by be spared the pain of having to gaze upon so hijeous a piece of machinery—not eVeii painted, but left to rust in all its giory? i •' :,lvr ■" -•';:

It is said that certain sentiments surround this. "ornament.'' What sentiments? Sentiments, perhaps, concerning what our men achieved in the Great War. But that is, is it not, shown by the result of that conflict? And are they happy sentiments that surround this article? No. Then whyshould anyone wish to keep something in our midst that tends to keep them alive.

So then, Mr Editor, I am sure tho whole-hearted support of the citizens would be given to" a move to dispose of this gun as scrap-iron, and so turn it into something infinitely "more useful than itself. "• In any case, even if nothing is done it will soon have rusted away and then everybody, perhaps, will -be not dissatisfied. —Yours, etc., . , "MARMADUKE."