CITIZENS' CARNIVAL COMMITTEE
ALLOCATING BALANCE OF FUNDS
! The Special Committee of the Citizen's Carnival Committee met yesterday and decided to allocate the balance to credit of. the fund, namely, £792 8s 4d, including £42 8s 4d interest. The Mayor presided. Mr. A. Marryat moved the necessary resolution authorising allocation of the money, and Mr. Wilson secended. The money will bo devoted to the improvement of the Basin Reserve under the modified scheme of the City Engineer. Councillor George Frost, chairman of the City Reserves Committee, referred to the splendid work done ,at Central Park, to which the Carnival Funds had been applied. The Mayor promised to give the matter o£ Basin Reserve improvement all the help he could, not-withstanding that he would have- preferred the adoption of the larger scheme with regard to Central Park. That would be a second Botanical Gardens. The engineers had been very busy, but the gates that had been promised by his firm -would, he hoped, soon be ready for the park. Councillor Frost said the fountain promised by Blundell Bros, had advanced to the point when plans of a, fountain were to b<; submitted to the donors to-morrow.
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 146, 17 December 1915, Page 5
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