Anzac Memorial

Hokitika Guardian, 11 October 1922, Page 3

Anzac Memorial

AT FORT SAID. LONDON, August 25. Tau Anzae memorial to be erected at l’i.rt Said to tbe men wlm died on service during the Inst three years of the war in Egypt. I’.destine and Syria, is to be fiom designs by Australian and New Zealand artists only, or British a tbts re-klcnt in these Domini ns. With regard t i this limitation an English inter says:—“The suggestion j to erect siic'i a. monument will be U|prreed by the thousands of Anzacs who served in tbe East, but it may he doubtful "luthor those of them who have scan the work of European and English sculptors will approve as cordially the condition t’uit only Australasian ■■sculptors or English sculptors resident in Australasia need apply. English sculptors here feel somewhat sore about the condition. Australian artists have been welcomed here and their talent appreciated. Charles Condor and IMi i I May are prominent ex-a-ni’b's. Sir Bertram Mackennal has been given State commissions of every kind, from statues to coins, as well as municipal and private commissions ol tbe most desirable kind. It would lie interesting to gel his views on the shutting out of English sculpture from the Vest raliati i ompetition.” 'i'lie Department of Defence is acting in this matter fur the Commonwealth Government and for lep o eutatives of the Australian and New Zealand for.es which served in Egypt ! till Palestine. The site of the proposed monument is in the Casino public gardens. immediately behind the Casino Palace T-Ji.t d at Port Said, facing tihe .quay near the entrance to the Srez Canal and near the read, a position from which il "ill be clearly visible to passengers passing through the Canal. The, main features of the monument will be a statue or group of statuary, in marble, or preferably bronze, and flic qliaraetcr of the monument "ill l-c left to the designer, with the sole proviso that his design must include sculpture typifying Loth Australian mud Now Zealand horsemen .