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"MONEY NO OBJECT."

Under this heading the Wellington Post last night says:—The most enduring monument of any man is his work, and 'he highest type of man , n;ks no other. "Only remembered ( by what I have done," was the as- , piration of Bishop Heb.'r, of whom, J in accordance with his express desire, j 110 formal biography was ever written Ovid, Horace, Shakespeare—to quote a few names only from a long roll —recognised in their works a monument more durable than brass; and "Circumspice" in St. Paul's is Wren's memorial. Yet, with pathetic ineptitude, men are still found who seek friends' memories by pretentious monuments which serve no useful purpose, and to which a world, busy with the concerns of the present, vouchsafes little more than the passing glance of indifference. Private friendship is, of course, free to give such expression as it pleases to its affection, and there is something touching to the sympathetic mind even in the imbecilities of "in memoriani" rhymes. But to devote public funds to such futile purposes is an anachronism calling for protest. The late -Premier, carried away by enthusiasm, pledged New Zealand to an outlay of fifteen thousand pounds on an ostentatious lflbnument in London, which, in its utter uselessness, is everything that a memorial to a great queen should not be. And now the Government, having already destroyed an observatory and inconvenienced a department to provide a site for the tomb of the late Premier, has, in the last hour of the session, obtained a vote of £5,000 for a monument. Private agitation towards this object found little response from the public, even counting the grudging contributions of pestered officials, and now, as in the case of the Queen's memorial, the State comes to the rescue with (borrowed) public funds, at the expense of the unsympathetic taxpayer. Of what value or significance is such a "memorial?"

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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8989, 26 November 1907, Page 7

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"MONEY NO OBJECT." Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8989, 26 November 1907, Page 7

"MONEY NO OBJECT." Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8989, 26 November 1907, Page 7

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