WOMEN’S CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE

Evening Star, Issue 23128, 30 November 1938, Page 9

WOMEN’S CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE

VIEWS OF EXECUTIVE GARRISON HAIL SITE FOR CITY At a well-attended meeting of the executive of the Otago Women’s Centennial Committee held yesterday, the question of the centennial memorial was again discussed. It was unanimously decided that the committee should present a modification of the scheme of Mr S. P. Cameron to the executive of the Provincial Committee for its further consideration, involving as this does the chance of the historic site of the Garrison Hall being made available by the Government for a memorial. The important point which influenced the women’s committee was the fact that if an official request for the site on which the Garrison Hall is built was not presented in the very near future this.site would be lost for ever to the municipality. It was felt by the Women’s Committee that a building of quite modest dimensions might be erected now, as part of a final stately memorial to be completed in 1948, and the sum involved, somewhere- about • £15,000, would not be beyond the ability of the subscribers to meet. The opinion, was expressed that com- \ muhity buildings must be erected in every city of any dimensions in the very near future, as headquarters of all the activities or the city, and this would be a splendid opportunity of making a start on a commanding and historio site at the very entrance to the city, and should at the same time receive the willing support of all citizens of both'sexes, as it concerned the welfare and progress of the whole ■ district. •