NEWS BY MAIL.
earl HAIG’S CHARGER. LONDON', December 15. The lute Earl Haig’s charger is dead. The famous old horse, on which the field-marshal rode in France during the war, and which walked in his funeral procession, has been shpt at the royal stables, where it was housed. Jt was suffering from pneumonia. Much attention has been drawn to the horse because the one in the equestrian statue of Earl Haig selected as the national memorial was so unlike it. Lady Haig told a reporter that a model of the charged was made before its death by Mr Haigh, a London sculptor, and a cousin of the late fieldmarshal. She said: J am anxious to submit to the Government assessors this model and also the equestrian statue made by Mr o. W. Ward Willis, which 1 am giving to any son, the present Earl Haig, as a memorial ot his lather. ! cannot submit these statues to the assessor without being asked, ami 1 am hoping that the assessors will inquest me to do so. It will ho recalled that Lady Haig objected to Mr Hardimau’s original design, saying that her husband's friends thought the design “terrible
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 February 1930, Page 1
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196NEWS BY MAIL. Hokitika Guardian, 28 February 1930, Page 1
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