NEW ZE AL AND.
[UNITED PKKSS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, June 6. The Jubilee Cominitteo met to-night to determine linaliy what should be"done with the surplus of some £250. A pro- I position-was made sonic time ago to devote it to the Public Library but there was considerable opposition, and the general tendency of the committee seemed to be m favor of erecting a memorial of some kind. Meanwhile ths committee voted a number of medals and other small sums which were considered to be frittoi-ins? iway money and met with a good deal of 3ontemptupus criticism. The supporters ' 3f the Library proposal increased m > ; strength and to-night on the moliou of i Sir W. Fitzherbert it was decided by 26 io 17 to devote the money to placing pictures and books relating to the early i settlement of ths colony ia the public : Library. •
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXVI, Issue 130, 7 June 1890, Page 2
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143NEW ZEALAND. Marlborough Express, Volume XXVI, Issue 130, 7 June 1890, Page 2
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