WINTER LECTURES.
' - TEE PUBLIC LIBRARY, FIXTURES. . One -of tho : most welcomo and practically. v< ■: beneficial' • innovations':- inaugurated' l bjr... the •' 'City' Council is the . series, of lectures that' are given under the auspices of tho Public Library of the . ; Municipality every winter. As will be seen' below,'.'particularly able lecturers-havo been secured for the coming 'winter,'.and the choice of subjects will bo found to be well diversified and-highly, entertaining'in.'character.'' ,V AT TEE TOWN HALL. Tho lectures to bo delivered at the Town. Hall are as under:— , -''* Itev. D. C. Bates.—" A Visit to tho : Mel- ■ .bourno Zoo" (illustrated by r lantern slides specially' takon by • tho director, M. Le' SoowS ■ . Mr, W. D. Gorham.—Shakespcrian ■ jeet-h '\"i., Rev. .Tudor Jones.—"Somo Lessons. froih the Philosophy: of- Plato and. Aristotle, for Zealandcrs." Y Mr." J- W.. I'oynton.—" Lumeniferous' . L Ether." ', .■■■,■ V" .. v Professor Mackenzie.—" Life and Work at a Mediaeval University." . -. Mr. John Gammell.—Tho Tell el Amama Tablets, a;Story of Anciont Egypt." i Dr. Cockayne.—"Tho National Park, Tongariro." Itev. 'James • Kaycc.—"Prison Reform", •' (illustrated.) - ; ' .■ . ' • Mr, J. Mooro (missionor). —" The Advantages and Disadvantages of a Sailor'a Life Ashore and Afloat" (illustrated). llev. W. A. Evans. ■ AT ST. THOMAS'S. HALL- NEWTOWN. Lectures ,to'bo delivered at St. Thomas's-1 Ilall, Newtown,,have been promised by Mzi I ' B. N. .Hobnes (sscretary of. the Dr.i -Mason .(Chief : Health . Officer), Professor 'Kirk, Mr. W. Gray, Dr. Bell (Director of, ' Geological/Survey), .Mr.: A- L. D. Fraser, ' M.P., and Professor: Hunter. So far -these 'gentlemen have .not N announced their subjects, but from the acknowledged gifts as ' r lecturers' possessed by those.mentioned,' it nmy bo safely assumed tho lectures will-be most interesting'. i The first of tho .Town Hall lectures to -be delivcred\by tho Revi'l). C. Bates . will 'take place in about a/fortnight's time. .-
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 187, 2 May 1908, Page 6
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