STEADILY GROWING

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 200, 21 May 1931, Page 3

STEADILY GROWING

The Carter Bequest

N.Z. INSTITUTE ACTION

Matters relating to the Carter memorial observatory (for Wellington) were before the annual meeting of the New Zealand Institute yesterday. Professor Kirk moved: “That the City Council be informed that the institute does not regard itself as justified in agreeing to the proviso that it should at this time buy a particular mirror and construct and mount a telescope at very great expense to the Carter fund; further, that it does not see its way to construct an observatory primarily to house a telescope that is not. whether through gift or purchase, a Carter memorial telescope; that the proviso as to representation of the City Council or the body controlling such an observatory as was contemplated is one that the institute would readily have agreed to; that the City Council be thanked for its consideration of the proposals submitted to it, which proposals the institute regards as now definitely disposed of.” The resolution was agreed to, and the institute committee dealing with the matter was disbanded.

The treasurer, Mr. M. A. Eliott, said that the Carter bequest was steadily growing, at the rate of nearly £5OO a year, and it would not bo long before they would be in a position to erect an observatory worthy of the donor.