WAR MEMORIAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 176, 26 June 1937, Page 10

WAR MEMORIAL.

PLANS FOR COMPLETION. AN IMPRESSIVE HALL. Per Press Association. "WELLINGTON.' June 25. •In an interview to-day the chairman of the Carillon Society, Mr A. Cowles, gave particulars supplied by Mr Glimmer, the designer of the National mer, the designed of the National Memorial Hall which it is proposed shall be added to the National War Memorial, the carillon tower at Wellington. The design of the ha.ll is based on the winning design of the National War Memorial, of which the tower forms a. part. Without the hall the tower has an unfinished appearance from behind. The bottom chamber of the tower was designed to form the vestibule of the hall. The hall is to be Gift long, 58ft wide and 26ft high. On each side of the entrance there will be a statue of a soldier on guard. The interior will be somewhat like the nave of a. church, with flanking recesses as side chapels. The far end of the nave will he prolonged into a shrine containing marble statuary typifying the spirit of sacrifice.

Coloured stone is suggested for the walls, rubber for the floor of the nave, and marble for the floor of the sanctuary. As the hall will be partly below the ground the lighting will he from above, and so arranged as to light the sanctuary and side recesses, where individual memorials of the various units will be placed. Ail altar will be placed before the shrine and on this a vellum roll of honour with the names of all the dead in the War will be lighted by a Lamp of Memory above.