Building grant to art gallery
The Canterbury Society of Arts has been granted $3070 by the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council towards extensions on its Gloucester Street gallery. The money was made available under the council’s new capital grants scheme and matches the $3070 the society has raised for the project.
The extensions planned involve a two-storey addition at the rear of the present building, to giye a further 2400 square feet of floor space. This will be used for storage and work space and also for the children s classes which the society holds on Saturday mornings. “We have been exceedingly short of storage and work space for the operation of the gallery for some time. The addition was planned at the same time as the gallery was built and it was always intended to build the extension as soon as enough money became available,” the secre-tary-manager of the society (Mr R. R. Laidlaw) said last evening. “The plans are out for tender now and work will begin as soon as conveniently possible and when we have arranged the extra finance.”
He said the cost of the extension would probably be about $20,000.
The grant to the society was one of 18 grants, totalling $16,470, made under the new scheme and announced yesterday.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33106, 22 December 1972, Page 12
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