THE CENTENNIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 135, 10 June 1939, Page 16

THE CENTENNIAL.

DESIGNS CRITICISED.

CONTROLLING BODY MEETS.

SUBSIDY APPLICATIONS

(By Telegraph.—Tress Association.)

WELLINGTON, Friday

Some, of the designs for memorial projects were severely criticised by the Government town-planning officer. Mr. •T. W. Maw*on. in a report not released for publication in the National Centennial Council to-dav.

The Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. \\". K. Parry, outlined the steps that hail been taken to look after the cultural >ide of the celebrations.

The Minister stressed that it was c-scntial Hint long hefore the commencement of the Centennial period the council should he in a position to issue a. complete official programme of the approved celebration*.

Dates; for Centennial celebrations already submitted were approved and will be forwarded to the various provincial committees for their guidance in avoiding clashes.

More than 100 applications for subsidies on Centennial memorial projects, over half being for parks ami treeplanting, were considered and approved. The council decided to recommend the fJovornment to grant all' possible facilities for the importation of whatever would be required for the Centennial. It. wa« agreed that March 31. 1040. be fixed as the final date on which original applications might be lodged for Centennial subsidies, and tlwit all subfidv moneys must be lifted by March 31. 1941. The I'nder-Secretarv of Internal Affairs, Mr. .T. \V. Heenan. said the Centennial organisations had allowed what lie would call without offence sectional interests to get. well ahead in the collection of funds. Tie instanced the response to Bishop Holland's cathedral fund and the Centennial Appeal of the Presbyterian Church. A motion was passed that in general the council favoured only one local Centennial memorial in any locality, except where the additional memorial was a troc-plantitiff protect and or an historical publication. Tn special case*, however, the council was prepared to consider more than one memorial.