NEW OBSERVATORY

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 69, 18 September 1936, Page 3

NEW OBSERVATORY

CARTER BEQUEST MONEY A RECENT CONFERENCE The observatory committee reported to the Wellington City Council last night that a conference presided over by the Minister of Educationi (the Ho£ p Fraser) was held recently to disc P uss F the er question *«-?££?£ the funds provided by the C*rterbeauest for the provision of an observaSin wTlUngton. There were preS representatives of the JwgSo. ciety the Department of Scientific and Industrial .Research. the Internal Affairs Department, and the City Council. The conference decided that a committee repre«n£ tive of the foregoing bodies should *e appointed to formulate a scheme tor the provision of an observatory _ in Wellington with the funds provided by the bequest. The council appointed as it* representatives on this committee jCouncillor M. F.Luckie and the Town Cleric (Mr. E. P: Norman). ....... ■', It was decided that the Minister of Education be requested to addition to the representatives of the above-named bodies, for the appointment on the committee of one representative from the astronomical'section" of the Wellington Philosophical Society and one representative from the New Zealand Astronomical Society in order to ensure that the astronomical point of view will be definitely represented on the committee. '.:; Councillor Liickie said that the fund had been accumulating for 40 years and was now approximately £12,000 and there .was no more suitable site:than that of the present observatory. It was thought that an adequate observatory could be built for something under £4OOO. Plans and specifications would be considered, by the committee, that had been set up.