PROPOSED MEMORIAL' HIGHWAY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 303, 18 September 1919, Page 4

PROPOSED MEMORIAL' HIGHWAY

NOT FAVOURED BY FARMERS' UNION, The proposal to form a national memorial ilignway in New Zealand was discussed by tho New Zealand Farmers Union yesterday.- An Auckland renut on the subject read as follows: Wt in the mutter of a memorial to the soldiors of the Dominion who fell in Wβ Great War, this conference expresses its approval of the proposal to construct a grand highway from the far north to lnvercargill, witli certain main connections from east to west, such highway to be constructed upon the best modem principles, and financed jointly by the Dominion Government and; hy local bodies, and that tho Dominion executive be asked to urge the Government to take immediate steps to give ellect \o dus uropVil, and that a mutable pillar .bo trwted -n each district as a memorial to fallen soldiers." * Air R Dunn opposed the idea, of niacin" for tho soldiers a utilitarian memo- , rial, such- as a road. Other delegates adonted ;i similar attitude. Mr. P. Keegan thought that the principle, of tho remit was right. Ho pointed to the Roman roads, which perpetuated for all time Uic memory of the uien who built them. Mr. Keegan was tho ouly delegato wno voted for tho remit.