CAMPBELL STATUE FUND.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 138, 10 June 1905, Page 6

CAMPBELL STATUE FUND.

At a meeting of the Campbell si nine Fund Committee yesterday afternoon, the chairman (tho Hon. E. Mitchelson) announced that there had been received C 11-14 4/1, of which £ 10G3 was subscriptions. £ 13 9/(i pamphlet money, and £li" .: 1/ interest on deposit. The expenditure ! had been £032 O/'J depoir.it. C3SI 1:2/4 , ' for tirst progress payment on the statue, £4ti 10/ wanes for canvasser-. . etc.. and £35 13/0 cost -of printing pamphlets. The balance i.i hand was £S ! 15/0. The cost (it the. statue was ti' be ' CUM. leaving about L2OO to he rai.-ed ito complete tiie purc/iase money. There r, was a sum of €13 73/ to come in fvoiv ■ Onehtinga a- subscriptions, Mr. Mitchel- " son suggested that the City Council ar.c! C Harbour Board should be asked to ton tribute a» other loc.il bodies had done 1 He also suggested that the L-.nnmiite. -should ask the Premier to remit the -us • turns duty on the statue or allow it t< ! come into the colony through the Agent Ceneral to the Minister for Publin Works, as "was done in the case oi tin * Grer statue. Those suggestions were '• agreed t.o. Mr. Hohn?-s (secretary) sus " ' geetetl that the working peop-le shouh ibc given nn opportunity to eontribuK t ' towanU Ihe -latin-. So far no organi-«-< s ;iVttMUpt had been wade to collect fr.Ul 1 .them the small sums they would be rioh to contribute. The. chairman stated thai 'the foundation of the statue was. >em< " prepared, and everything would be read} p for the early creation of the statue r.t '," I ter it- arrival.