ART GALLERY LIGHTING
The Wellington City Council last night decided to decline the request, of the National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum Board of Trustees to mtet the cost of Installing and maintaining a floodlighting system in the grounds o'the institutions, but to offer to bear half th. annual cost of the lighting if the board of trustees desired to proceed with the installation. The Mayor, Mr. T. C. A. Hislop, explained that the cost of the total mstalalion was £BOO, with £lBO a year for upkeep. ~ , „ , , . , Cr L. McKenzie said it was "shockingly dark” round the carillon, and if the council did not carry' out the art gallery lighting it might do something at the carillon. Cr W. J- Gaudin: It’s not our pigeon. Cr. McKenzie: Well, you might say it is a public street. The Mayor said the institutions were not purely civic ones, though ope of great interest to Wellington. The council had therefore decided to offer to meet .ball the annual cost of lighting as a basis of discussion and that offer would now be made to the trustees.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 303, 18 September 1936, Page 3
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