WAR MEMORIALS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 121, 15 February 1919, Page 8

WAR MEMORIALS

WELLINGTON GARRISON'S DECISION. With a view lo providing a suitable memorial to fallen comrades, the Territorial units-in AVellington,including D Battery, N.Z.I'.A., Wellington Division, ■N.Z.G.A., sth Wellington Infantry Kegiment, Field Engineers, and others have combined m order that the memorial may be representative of the local garrison troops as a whole. A decision' has been arrived at that the memorial will take tlio torn of selected presbytery stalls in the new cathedral, and a sum in the neighbourhood of .EIOOO is already in sight, and will probably be exceeded. The names of the regiments and of their.fallen comrades will be recorded, and regimental colours will be preserved in the Cathedral. It was of course to lie anticipated that the military forces would be the first to move in the direction.of a permanent and enduring memorial, ancl as a consequence they have secured the particular portion of the building which is peculiarly suited to their purpose. However, although this is the case, other public or private bodies or societies who contemplate similar action can be assured that the opportunities afforded by the Cathedral ir_this behalf arc by no means exhausted, and there yet remains a wide selection from the point of view not only of position, but of cost. In fact, there is facility for those, who can offer but. a modest contribution for the purpose to make arrangements with the promoters, by which a specified feature in the building may be set apart to the memory of a particular soldier or of a number of soldiers, and an appropriate inscription placed upon record accordingly. The erection of the Cathedral comes at an opportune moment lo satisfy The widespread desire for a working testimony to tlio valour of our fighting men— a desire that has found expression in other places in the war shrine,- a, somewhat ephemeral form of memorial which cannot bear comparison with the work 6oon to take eoucrete form in our city.