Fund to help restoration
A fund ha< been set up through the Historic Places Trust to help owners of historic buildings and sites with maintenance costs. It was made possible hv a $lOO,OOO grant from the New Zealand Lottery Board. ' The trust's ’director (Mr John Daniels) said that the fund was an important development which would help owners to restore old buildings. Grants from it would be made towards the restoration of the Mount Cook (Wellington) Police Barracks and Spinks Cottage, also in Wellington, and the Kawau Island coppermine ruins, said Mr Daniels.
The total grant m -de available by the I.ot!e r v hoard tn the trust this veai was ssBBihml Almost all ni this would he used for Historic Place Trust projects, he said. The trust had also received $40,000 from the Government for the restoration of Maori buildings. Mr Daniels said that this work was "an increasingly important part of the trust’s programme, and that it would be expanded.” "These buildings are the truly unique part of New Zealand’s cultural heritage." he said.
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