NATIONAL WAR MEMORIAL

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 July 1927, Page 12

NATIONAL WAR MEMORIAL

STATEMENT BY MR COATES. WELLINGTON, July 19. A reply has now been received by the Mayor (Mr G. A. Troup) from the Prime Minister! Mr Coates) with reference to the representations made by a deputation which waited upon the Prime Minister and the Minister for Finance some time ago urging that (1) The National War Memorial, (2) the National Museum, (3) the Dominion Art Gallery, and (4) the Wellington War Memorial Carillon should be combined and erected on the Mount Cook site. The Prime Minister, in his reply, says:— “With reference to the representations made by the deputation which waited upon the Hon. Minister for Finance and myself on May 27 in connection with the establishing of the National War Memorial in Wellington, and for the reinstatement of £lOO,OOO on the Estimates for the building of a Dominion Museum and Art Gallery, I have to advise that the whole position has been carefully reviewed by Cabinet, and it has been decided that the original undertaking must be adhered to, namely that the subsidy of £lOO,OOO will be provided when the citizens of Wellington have subscribed a like sum. “With regard to the question of the site, a report is being obtained from the Public Works Department as to the cost of preparing the Mount Cook land for the proposed building, and when this report is received further consideration will be given to this matter and also to the question of setting up a Board of Trustees to administer the affairs of the Museum.”