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Article: New Zealanders request London's `unwanted' statues
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 30, 2000
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KEN LIVINGSTONE regards them as obscure anachronisms that should
be banished from Trafalgar Square. But in Anglophile New Zealand, the
bronze statues of Sir Henry Havelock and Sir Charles James Napier
might yet be welcomed with open arms.
The city of Napier and the hamlet of Havelock North, named after
two military heroes of the Raj era, have offered to give a good home
to the statues if they are ever removed from their plinths in central
London.
Richard Jones, a councillor in Havelock North, on New Zealand's
North Island, said that locals would be keen to acquire the town's
namesake if Mr Livingstone went ahead and replaced the statues with
more recognisable 21st-century figures. Napier, ...