WELLINGTON WAR MEMORIAL

Evening Star, Issue 19788, 11 February 1928, Page 2

WELLINGTON WAR MEMORIAL

LATEST SITE SUGGESTED JPeb United Press Association.] WELLINGTON', February 10. In view of the altered circumstances an entirely now site for ilie Wellington citizens’ war memorial is recommended by Mr R. Hurst Senger, llie well-known architect and town planner, in a report lie has forwarded to the Prime Minister (Mr ,T. G. Coates). At the instance of the Government in 1026, Mr Sea per, in a. report submitted to the then Acting P.rime Minister (Mr IV. D. Stewart) recommended in preference to the site adjacent to Parliament grounds that the memorial should be erected on tlie Mount Cook site and should form part of the scheme embodying the National "War Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, including a campanile. The location for the citizens’ memorial now suggested bv Mr Reager is at the south .end of Kent and Cambridge terraces, between the fence of the Basin Reserve and the footpath and on the exial line of the garden between them. Thus the Mount Cook site would be left available tor the national memorial, together with the Museum, Art Gallery, ami campanile, in connection with which scheme an improved rearrangement of lay-out is suggested. The Prime Minister considers the report of such genera! interest and importance that he has handed a copy io the Press for publication at the earliest possible moment in order that the recommendations may be _ available lor public information and discussion.