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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5356, 26 November 1928, Page 2

The surface of the red metal roads of the Hauraki Plains is disintegrating on account of the dry wejather, and, amongst others, motorists will not be sorry to see the predicted heavy rain.

“Grim, hideous, inhuman, long since removed from any link with personal valour or suffering, war trophies speak only of war and destruction and the ruthlessness of the weapons men have forged for their, mutual slaughter (says thq London Daily express). As trophies, of victory they are valueless and unneeded. As reminders of the w a.r they often cause pain to those who knew, and are still trying to forgqt, its realities. Moreover, by their senseless parade they keep the war idea vlive at a time when all sane peoples are striving desperately to ensure peace. Wa,r, like vice, is not a thing: to be publicly displayed, least of all qn this, its purely material, side. It is right that there should, be memorials to those who died doing their duty. It is right that their names and example should be, exalted. But if anything is needed for this purpose beyond the simplest tablet or column, then let it take the form of dedicateid flowerbeds in the place qf these, monstrous engines of murder and mutilation. Flowers are an emblem hot only .of the lasting wholesomqness of life, but of the bqauty nature allows to arise from the dust of the beloved dead.”