BOARD’S MINUTES RELEASED
Provincial Buildings Dispute
EXPLANATION'GIVEN BY
MR FORBES.
[From Our Parliamentary Reporter.] WELLINGTON, June 6. The minutes of the annual meeting cf the Canterbury Provincial Buildings Board, which were made available today, make clear the attitude which the board took on the dispute which has arisen through the Canterbury Pilgrims and Early Settlers’ Association using one of the rooms in the building. The position was mentioned in remarks made by Mr E. J. Howard, deputy chairman of the local committee, on the annual report. Mr Howard said that permission had been granted to the association to use one of the rooms in Bellamy's portion of the building through a misapprehension. He stated that although he was in sympathy with the aims of the association he was opposed to any part of the building under the jurisdiction of the board being handed over to any outside body. As members were aware, the permission which had been granted had been withdrawn by the board, which was the only body with power to deal with the rooms after they were no longer required by the general Government. The Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes, who paid a tribute to the keen interest Mr Howard had always taken ■in the building, said that when he granted permission to the association to use Ihe rooms he had been under the impression that all the authorities concerned had been consulted. This, however, was apparently not the position, and he regretted any inconvenience that had been caused.
It was decided that no portion of the building vested in the board should be handed over to any outside body, but that the committee be authorised to let any part of the building on such terms and for such purposes as it thought fit.
The committee which was set up is as follows: The Hon. Sir R. Heaton Rhodes, the Hon. D. Buddo, Messrs H. S. Ji Kyle, H. E. Herring, and E. J. Howard. Mr J. A. Redman, of Christchurch, remains secretary and treasurer for the board.
BOARD’S MINUTES RELEASED
Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21803, 8 June 1936, Page 10
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