QUEEN'S STATUE COMMITTEE.

Evening Star, Issue 11666, 28 September 1901, Page 7

QUEEN'S STATUE COMMITTEE.

The Queen's Statue Committee met yMgM terday afternoon in the Agricnltwal Buildings. Mr Keith Ramsay occupied &ff|f chair, and there were also pP6aent*-«Mi|ll|j| Gordon Macdonald, Miss Kirkcaldy, ftiifjH Messrs R. Glendining (treasurer), R. fflgm Wheeler, jun. (secretary), A. SUgo, j||l| C. Thomson, C. S. Reeves, D. Joachim, and Hon. T. Fergus. ApologSaPffll were received from Messrs J. Reid «&s|9 W. B. Tigers for absence. t js|| The Secretary read a report from tutt||| London Committee as to the cost ofWgg statue of her late Majesty, Mr Oliver communicated with Messrs Herbert He4np#S| ton (a rising sculptor), A. R.A., and Onslow Ford, R.A. Mr ton submitted two designs, one in penw»f]| showing a statue of the Queen (Bft 6fs),'|f on a pedestal (9ft 6in), with two figures to' l: | Wisdom and Justice at the side, and p&tttls. at the back and front representing events in the life of the Queen with *pe-fl cial reference to the colonies. The COgb M landed in the colony would be about in .marble, and if with the Queen in XQWljUirvl and the figures and panels in brottt*; wi| cost would be £2,400. The model,ln? "1 wax,of the design would arrive in ab«JK*s a fortnight. With the figures of Justice, Truth', and Piety, and omitting' ri the panels, the cost would be aboat£B.7&W V The subsidiary fignrcs might be t«uxWdV s'i and the pedestal have four panel* o! an* important character at a price of £l r 7OO. J& The treasurer reported that they hftdno'or i received about £2.320 m snb«(;riptloUß;-andKt¥ after deducting the cost of tbe work, they had now about £2.100 «wiH»-V? able. ' . *'j

The Chairman said that, the whole oost«jf! >** the design, with the stafcne, two figure*, , \ and two panels, would be about £B,BOO, nnd the Executive bad decided that tblft was the best design available. Tiny there* ' fore only needed about' £7OO now, wad b» thought they should approve of this design once and for all. It w resolved that the Committee accept the offer of Mi* Hampton, subject to the model being approved on arrival. A vote of thanks was accorded Mrs Gordon Mucdonald and the ladies of the Committee for their work in collecting subscription*, nnd this closed the bttsintM.