THE MOTUROA OBELISK.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 January 1917, Page 2

THE MOTUROA OBELISK.

UNTIDY SURROUNDINGS ' The Visit of Miss E. M. StaUm.i, Inspector of Veteran'!: Graves under the Department of Internal Affairs, to the breakwater some fin- ago, and her Inspection of the Moturoa Übclhk had their counterpart at. the meeting of the New Plymouth Harbor Board yesterday, when Miss Stathaia wrote stating, that sh.e had been sorry to find the surroundings of the obeli.sk so untidy ar.d .iog]ect."J. Moturoa kjs on i-.of the most h.storical spots in the whole of the Dominion, wr.no Miss Statham, und as it was _.t present, it was no credit to r'.iose in charge of

A membi-r: Wluvt is t'i,> po;:iiij:i with regard to the monument? The chairman (Mi. J. B. Cor.r.cttl: Some years ago the Board gave the ]{» to Mayor, Mr, Tisch, permission to t-rcs-t the stuiio. It \v,is assumed thin that n \- though they had no co'isrol of th- land o. 1 . 'viiifli ilii 1 stone was i-rectod. vnavigation that erected it wonid Icok alter the s.irroiinding.i.

Mr. NevUn I'-iii.-: T think thj Ng.i----n-ot.: Comniitti'i! vrenld look i:ftor the place The monur.ie.-.t Is :\c. attraction, and it*-. ..;uH':v::idii.s ; . jhouU .crt.iin.y be K.-pl in good order. Mr 0. T. Bcllf:fi.scr: I Lure Captain ",y&'lic.; '.vyjlil he miy 100 to icoil uitei it. The Board.: workmen cjuld u?si3t. M: lNio.v:o;i Ming: W? hhould .hank the- r'o; do..win- or.r attention to the y-.atter. j.L. KirUriiigcr- T th'r.ik i. deoen'.; ice.:'.: should be erected c.r.T.„iil the stcne, and piants ar.i'. shrub-- should be pknted within fence.

The chairman: .Suppose th.: Board I'or.Tio ite.elf into .! T.'orkir.r-bee mid ii.iprove tne i'.opiar.in.e of the place. (Laughter;. It was finally -reived lo 3ia:c t'.ifl eirc-nmstanees of the erection o ? the stone to the vriter, ..nd to inform her (i:nt when permission to erect the stone

was "ivcn, it waj assumed t!.at tho body ii.at erected it wiuld lock after it. Now that the Board',- attcr.lion Lad boon drawn to t.-.o matter, steps v.o;ild be It ken to li.'.v; tbc farrouadicg.-? improved.