OBSERVATORY NEEDS
BETTER BUILDING URGENTY REQUIRED The astronomical section of the Philosophical Society is organising a public deputation to wait upon . the New Zealand Institute at its annual meeting, to be held in the Dominion Museum to-morrow afternoon. The members of the institute are the trustees for the Carter bequest, established 23 years ago, for the purpose of establishing an observatory in Wellington, and the fund now stands at over £5OOO. The deputation will be led by the Hon. Dr. Newman, who will make a request for sufficient funds from th© bequest to put up an observatory building. Tho purpose of the building is to prowde a dome for the telescope recently purchased by the Wellington City Council, which has agreed to give a site in the Botanical Gardens, adjoining the present observatory at Kelburn. The value of the site ana the new telescope is about £4OOO, and a suitable building, including a library and lecture-room, can be put up for between £3OOO and £4OOO. Such a building is urgently required, as the present buildings at Kelburn are entirely inadequate, and are crowded out, people frequently having to wait cutside the observatory.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 104, 28 January 1924, Page 9
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