SEDDON MEMORIAL FUND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13442, 21 March 1907, Page 9

SEDDON MEMORIAL FUND.

MONUMENT TO BE ERECTED IN ~ WELLINGTON.

A MKK'rrva of the general committee of the Seddon memorial movement, was held in Wellington' on Thursday last, to discuss the position now existing with regard to perpetuation of the lato Premier's memory.

Tile Mayor said the statement that the committee had allowed the matter to cool down,'.was not creditable to those who made it, for Mr. Seddon loomed large enough in New Zealand not to be forgotten in a few months.

Mr. T. K. Macdonald said the committee was not to blame for any delay that had taken place. It had been doing its best to force from the Government some answer to the expressions of opinion received from all over the colony. The City Council of Wellington, in supporting the project for a national technical college, had offered an endowment amounting to .612,000, and the committee estimated that it could gel from £8000 to £10,000 in subscription?. This, With the Government subsidy, would mean £40,000, yet the Government refused to give the land for the college, .it Mount Cook, where in the centre of the city ten acres remained vacant. He appealed to the Government to reconsider its decision.

The Hon. Dr. Findlay said the Government had to consider the interests of the whole colony, and it was largely a recognition of that fact which made Mr. Seddon resist the granting of the Mount C'>ok site for any but public: requirements. After a long discussion, it was resolved that a monument lie erected in the city to Mr. Seddon's memory.