The Executive Committee of the Otago Centennial Council will he giving consideration on Monday to various proposals submitted for a Centennial memorial for the Dunedin district. A still more comprehensive proposal—offered as a possible memorial for Otago as a whole—will also be considered. This is for a Commimity Centre Building and garden in the heart of Dunedin, as the capital city of Otago. The conception is that such a centre would he an asset to this city as a leading educational centre. The building, by providing a conference hall, smaller meeting hall, and sub-committee rooms, etc., would be a focal point for the community’s growing leisure and cultural activities, and by providing reading, writing, and waiting rooms as well would also be a rendezvous for the many country folk coming into Dunedin for the day. It is suggested that the proposed site shown above is an ideal one, as it happens to be the only site (a) within a stone’s throw of Government rail and bus terminals; (b) which would link up all present memorials and their gardens in this part of the city; and (c) is almost the exact spot where the original settlers from the John Wickliffe and Philip Laing held their first thanksgiving service.

Evening Star, Issue 23113, 12 November 1938, Page 12

The Executive Committee of the Otago Centennial Council will he giving consideration on Monday to various proposals submitted for a Centennial memorial for the Dunedin district. A still more comprehensive proposal—offered as a possible memorial for Otago as a whole—will also be considered. This is for a Commimity Centre Building and garden in the heart of Dunedin, as the capital city of Otago. The conception is that such a centre would he an asset to this city as a leading educational centre. The building, by providing a conference hall, smaller meeting hall, and sub-com-mittee rooms, etc., would be a focal point for the community’s growing leisure and cultural activities, and by providing reading, writing, and waiting rooms as well would also be a rendezvous for the many country folk coming into Dunedin for the day. It is suggested that the proposed site shown above is an ideal one, as it happens to be the only site (a) within a stone’s throw of Government rail and bus terminals; (b) which would link up all present memorials and their gardens in this part of the city; and (c) is almost the exact spot where the original settlers from the John Wickliffe and Philip Laing held their first thanksgiving service.