THE WAR MEMORIAL
ANOTHER SUGGESTION THE GRAVE OF AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER "I have another suggestion to make in regard to the war memorial,” said Mr. AV. Stuart Wilson to a DOMINION reporter. "TVhy should we not place a. noble column on the top of Alt. A'ictoria, the most commanding position in the capital city of the Dominion, and inter beneath it the body of an unknown New Zealand soldier from Gallipoli or France? A monument of that kind would become n place of pilgrimage for very many people. “The scheme that I am suggesting would absorb only- a small part of the ■£l6Xl,OOO that Parliament has voted for u national war memorial, and the balance of the money could be spent on a memorial of another kind at a point more easily reached by the general public. What that memorial should be is a matter open for discussion. But I believe that the monument I am suggesting on the summit of Alt. Victoria will appeal to very many people as a most effective way of enshrining the memory of our dead soldiers.”
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 125, 19 February 1921, Page 6
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182THE WAR MEMORIAL Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 125, 19 February 1921, Page 6
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