PLANETARIUM POPULAR

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29263, 22 July 1960, Page 16

PLANETARIUM POPULAR

4000 Children Seek Lessons

Already 4000 children in Forms I and II have applied through their schools for lessons in the Canterbury Museum’s planetarium before the end of the year. “This represents 50 separate showings,” the education officer (Mr Rhys Griffiths) reported to the Museum Trust Board yesterday. "I have not called for secondary school applications because I seriously doubt our ability to cater for extra numbers,” Mr Griffiths said. “Secondary schools which have a trained planetarium operator on their staff will be able to use the planetarium ion week-day afternoons." ■ Adults also are intensely interested in the new. planetarium. (The assistant director of the museum (Mr E. G. Turbott) said that, although reservations had 'been available for only two days, one of the opening sessions was already booked out and others were filling rapidly. At the outset, at any rate, it seemed that people turning up at the last minute would have to risk being shut out.

Public showings of the planetarium will be held on Wednesdays at 3.30 p.m., Thursdays at 8 pan., and Saturdays at 10.30 a.m. and 3 p.m.