CABINET DECISIONS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 188, 4 May 1908, Page 7

CABINET DECISIONS.

VOTES AND AUTHORISATION. TE ARO POST-OFFICE—FEVER : r HOSPITAp SITE. SEDDON MEMORIAL MONUMENT. Cabinet met on Saturday night, the Prims "Minister, Sir Joseph Ward; presiding. The following authorisations were made Rangiora Technical School, £730. . Compassionate allowanco to the widow of Constable Chisliolm. «. Burnliam Industrial School improvements. £2500. • /.■ ; Telephone lms between Wanganui and Waverlcy. ' . . Post office at Toko. . fschool : at' Stanley Bay (Auckland district), £735.' ' ' - Railways, £6000.j;roads, £8200. -'» /■' , Tenders were accepted. as follow:— ; "Additibns 'to • the' 1 Sunny sido Mental Eos' • - pital. ■' ;.. ' Post-office at Wereroa (Levin). ." : ; Post-office at Howick .(Auckland district); ■ ,Timber : . for the Mangatua' Reef ton Railway.-... j.;. y v ,'../■ ■! ■Alternative tenders were authorised to be called for;— ._ ■ , l( A polico station at Ranfurly (O.tago). ' Alternative two or three-storied post-office at To Aro (Wellington). Authority was given to exchange.from five' ' to ten acres of tho-: Mount View Asylum sito for land bolonging to tho Wellington Hospital Trustees, for a site dt the former place for tho fever hospital. v.• .. . . . A teudcr was accepted for, the monument'■ to be; erected over the', grave ,of tho late. Sir. Seddon oil Observatory Hill. Details of this inoriument ; hayo already , been',' -published. The total height will be 59ft. from tho ground. The pedestal, based on the present \v ; foundation, will bo 16ft: high, ■ and the col- ' \ umn, or shaf.t, another 33ft. The shaft of the'column/will'bo square, measuring 4ft. Gin. on each sido, and tapering to 3ft. lOin. at the • top.',,; 'Surmounting . the whole: will be. /.'" a symbolical-figure,. 10ft/'in : , height. -.The '. V' monument will havo a core of . ferro-concroto. and will-be''faced'with Now Zealand marbli or, .granite. . Tho, work will ' probably v tak< : about four nionths to completo: iTho amount \ of .thq tender has not been disclosed.- . - .