MUSEUM TO BE CLOSED
A WELLINGTON LANDMARK
(PBXSS ASSOCIATION TBLKOEiK.) WELLINGTON, March 13. The Government has decided to close to the public the old Dominion Museum at the rear of Parliament buildings so that the packing of exhibits for transfer to the new building at Mount Cook can be completed. The. Hon. W. E. Parry said to-day that the work of transferring the exhibits would start next month, the new building being due to be handed by the contractors to the Board of Trustees on April 1. : The museum has been open continuously for more than .70 years. The i building is one of Wellington's landmarks,
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21732, 14 March 1936, Page 25
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