WAR TROPHIES FOR NEW ZEALAND

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 113, 6 February 1919, Page 4

WAR TROPHIES FOR NEW ZEALAND

The Defence authorities are being deluged with requests from every part of New Zealand for captured guns and other war trophies that lend themselves to display in public squares, parks, reserves, etc. The practice is for the captures of each New Zealand unit to be distributed among the towns of the area in which the unit has its headquarters. An .equitable distribution is secured by conferences of' tho mayors of towns concerned. Of course, there will not bo enough trophies for every place in the Dominion, and large batches of requests will have to be declined. One petition that the Department cannot see its way to accede to comes from a community whoso place of habitation is not readily discovered upon the map, and whoso strongest link with tho big world outside is aweekly motor service. The latest trophies to come to hand in Wellington were brought to New Zealand by the transport Malta. They come from tho Palestine and Mesopotamia!! .fronts, and include several howitzer barrels, several quick-firer barrels, three limbers, and a three-inch mountain gun. As their capture is credited simply to the New Zealand Division as a whole, they will shortly Wome the property of the Dominion War Museum.