WANTED, A NEW MUSEUM
MINISTER'S SUGGESTION
- PRACTICAI. SYMPATHY NEEDED.
"I entirely agree with 'The Post's' ar-' tide headed 'Too Much Sympathy,' ," remarked the Hon. Mr. Bollard, Minister o£ Internal Affairs, in an interview this morning, "that sympathy will not provide a new museum, for the Empire City. Many people, very interested in the preservation of the early relics of the country, are in sympathy ■ with the necessity for a new building-, but a little practical sympathy would go a long way towards helping to obtain that building, which, I must admit, is long overdue." Mr. Bollard said the Government long ago would have made a start towards bringing about the erection. of a' new museum had it had the money to do so. Every member of the Cabinet, he said, recognised the need, but there were other directions—for. the . maintenance and development of the country—in which the money on hand had to go. "As I stated at the meeting of the Science a.nd Arts Board,'! said-Mr. Bollard, "I proposed trying Cabinet again, but I cannot say what luck I shall have. Yes, it wouid certainly help me greatly in my desire to get the new building If. some munificently-inclined citizens of the: Dominion, who share with 'The Post'and me, in the view that our national collections should be i>roperly housedand displayed to the public were to launch a little fund which I could take to Cabinet and to Parliament and get the practical sympathy subsidised. That would give things a start —a very good start. In agreeing to that suggestion, I'dp not wish.it to be inferred that the Government proposes to disregard its obligations in the matter; it does not., There are several recent precedents where similar difficulties have been overcome." Mr. Bollard said that the provision being niade^ in the Dominion Farmers' Institute building for the housing of Maori collections was merely to safeguard the collections against fire until such time as a new museum was provided.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 27, 1 February 1924, Page 7
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328WANTED, A NEW MUSEUM Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 27, 1 February 1924, Page 7
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