Art Gallery Plans
If the building programmer’s approval is received soon, tenders for the new gallery of the Canterbury Society of Arts at 66 Gloucester street may be called in September and the building opened a year later. Yesterday advice was received that the Government has taken the Durham Street Art Gallery of the society by proclamation for eventual use by the Justice Department.
The society will take over the Gloucester street property from the Government under the agreement that has been negotiated. Mr R. R. Laidlaw, secretarymanager of the society, said sketch plans for the new twostorey gallery on the long, narrow site were before the building programmer in Wellington and it was hoped approval would be granted soon. The society’s architects would then be asked to give urgency to the working drawings and calling of tenders.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31088, 17 June 1966, Page 8
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