TO PROTECT CENOTAPH
PLATES IN PAVEMENT “THIS IS HOLY GROUND” The Auckland Returned Soldiers’ Association made a suggestion to the City Council on Thursday evening for the protection of the Cenotaph from desecration by thoughtless persons. The association proposed that at each of the four corners of the column at a distance of about four paces from the base of the steps, a brass tablet bearing the following inscription be let in flush with the pavement: “They whom this Cenotaph commemorates were numbered among those who at the call of King and country left all that was dear to them, endured hardness, faced danger and finally passed out of sight of men by the path of duty and self-sacrifice, giving up their own lives that others might live in freedom.” These brass tablets are to be connected by a brass strip of suitable width also let in flush with the pavement, the strips to be engraved as follow: “Remember—this is holy ground— Tread not upon it except in reverence.” The architects, who have approved of the general idea, are quite -willing to co-operate with the council in carrying out the work. The question iwas referred to the Parks Committee for consideration.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 956, 26 April 1930, Page 6
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201TO PROTECT CENOTAPH Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 956, 26 April 1930, Page 6
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