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OLD CANTERBURY PROVIN- ! CIAL CHAMBERS Fulfilment of the Government’s promise to preserve the old Canterbury Provincial Council chamber and the land on which it is situated as trust for the people of Canterbury and Westland is provided for in the Canterbury Provincial Buildings Vesting Bill read a first time in the House of Representa lives yesterday. The Bill seeks to vest in a board comprising the members of Parliament for Canterbury and Westland under the chairmanship of the Minister of Lands, the provincial council chamber and site to preserve intact, and also adjacent land subject to occupation rights by the Crown for use for general government purposes. The board is to have power to say for what purposes the building is to be used and is to be furnished with funds to be appropriated by Parliament and donated to it by local bodies in the two provincial districts. The board is also to have authority to delegate its powers to a committee comprising not less than three or more than five of its members. The presentation of the Bill was made the occasion for tendering to the. Government the thanks and congratulations of the people of Canterbury and Westland by their representatives in the House.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 288, 5 September 1928, Page 10
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