BURNS MEMORIAL HALL.
SCOTTISH SOCIETY'S PRJ • . January 27th, 1932, the 173p versary of the birth of Robert is the date favoured, by menu the. Scottish Society for . layiij foundation stone of the Burn! onai Halt. ' . A site in Armagh street,-sc that on" which the Ridgely erected, has been acquired at' of £IBGO. In area it is '.ofi a quarter .of an acre, wiilrj frontage. There is a two-fitffajf x dence on it, and this will jj uiolished. ' -» The Society has in mately £2OOO for expending* q hall and furnishings, and 'it -It raise a largo part of tha-fial quired before - January. - 'SsR the" whole of the section, wffl for tho hall and outUraildut'i are expected -i to cost froni;'-!3 £6OOO. Reinforced ' wall be the materia] used." \ i will have clufe," band. an4j;w rooms. .. . ' •• ' t 'Ji - - It is possible , that . one-"ofc:ts will be ereeted on the the wholo of the area, will [. Plans have • been, Society "to give- members, an? the most suitable type of Bm| site," but no decision as tp-.jm lecture has yet been reacfanjg ' Although, .it is! feelme exists between taMpfljl I "th'e .Scottish" and i amalgamation* fs; rcchrdM|SH ! a&ran
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20249, 29 May 1931, Page 18
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