DOMINION ART GALLERY.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 222, 19 September 1929, Page 8

DOMINION ART GALLERY.

WAR MEMORIAL BUILDINGS. COMPETITIVE DESIGNS CALLED. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The conditions for competitive designs for a new Dominion museum, national art gallery and campanile for a carillon of bells, to be erected on the Mount 1 Cook site in the centre of Wellington City were finally revised and approved to-day. ; The initial expenditure will be 1 £215,000, made up of a Government grant i of £100,000, the city's contribution of t £100,000, and a special Government t grant of £15,000 for the tower to house i the carillon. The tower will be faced i and finished and the hall of memories i provided when funds are available. i The conditions provide that the build- a ings must be planned with a view to future extension. Competitors have t also to indicate their ideas of the treat- c ment of the land about the group. i The personnel of the jury of award is: Mr. C. W. Wood, Christchurch, Mr. W. £ Gray Young, Wellington, and the Gov- i ernment town planner, Mr. J. W. Maw- i son. s The preliminary designs are to be for- 1 warded to the town clerk, Wellington, ' by January 23, 1930. r