A LIMIT SET
COST OF CENTENNIAL
AUCKLAND POWER BOARD
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 3. Decisions to give £1000 towards the cost of the Auckland Centennial Memorial Park' an ■ the Waitakere Ranges, to grant the free supply of £800 worth of power and maintenance for the city's Centennial illuminations, and to limit its contributions for all Centennial purposes to £4000, were made unanimously by the Auckland Electric, Power Board today. The chairman (Mr. S. J.'..Harbutt) said the sum of £4000 would be reached by the expenditure so far. decided upon by the board. It had already been decided to give £1000 towards the cost of the Auckland Court at the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition in Wellington, and to spend £600 on a combined electrical display at the Exhibition. To these two contributions were now to be added a £1000 gift to the Auckland memorial, £800 worth of power and maintenance for illuminations, the £450 the board intended to spend on its own account for the illumination of its own buildings, and £150 which the board's float in the Centennial Pageant would cost. :
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 3, 4 July 1939, Page 15
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182A LIMIT SET Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 3, 4 July 1939, Page 15
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