NEW BRIGHTON WAR MEMORIAL.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16796, 30 March 1920, Page 7

NEW BRIGHTON WAR MEMORIAL.

TO TFIE EDITOR OF "TIIK PRESS.'' ®' r > T was pleased to read in "The Press" this morning your mention of a letter written bv 'Mr A. P. Hopkins on the above subject, and I regret the letter was not published, as evidently Mr _ Hopkius expressed therein the opinion and wishes of probably a large majority of tlie New Brighton residents. To rav mind the idea of raising any porlion of the money required by a loan chargeable 011 the ratepayers is absolutely and an insult to the men whom it is intended to honour. Surely, the Council must have passed their resolution without due consideration, or thev would not have put themselves in the position of saying fo the returned soldiers: "Hore vo'u are boys; see thfe memorial, wo have erected to your honour! Our people were rather slow about paving up, so we clappod it on the rates, and. incidentally, you may have to do your little bit towards the cost." Surely, all we require is a simple monument on the lines indicated by Mr Hnpkins—freo from any utility idea, moderate in cost, simple in design, durable in existence, sacred to the memory of the fallen, and the honour of those spared to roturn. The money to be raised by the freewill offerings of those who really honour the men whoso memory we wish to perpetuate. In contusion, I heartily support Mr Hopkins's suggestion rogarding war trophies, and would suggest that the monument bo flanked by a couple of captured German guns, with inscriptions showing date of capture, name of battle, and by whom captured.—Yours, etc., w. mit;es. New Brighton, March 29tli, 1920.