CAPTAIN SCOTT MEMORIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15249, 12 March 1913, Page 8

CAPTAIN SCOTT MEMORIAL.

't / •- GOVERNMENT AID ASKED. i- f •i £ SYMPATHETIC REPLY. e "" ° [BX TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] 3 > CHBisrcHXJECH, Tuesday. 6 The Mayor (Mr. H. Holland), acoompa--0 nied by Messrs. L. M. Isitt'and T. H. i- Davey, M.P.'s, Broached to the Prim« Minister (the Hon. W. F. Massey) the flnhiAft, of frrtVAPnmenE aKsiqtjixifA in pon-

suDjecu oi uovemmeni) assistance in connection with the Captain Scott memorial ?uns. They desired that contributions matfe by local bodies should be legalised, and also that the Government should do something in the way of a subsidy. In reply Mr. Massey said that the matter had been before the Cabinet but not exactly in this form. In the first place the Cabinet had decided it would ask Parliament to agree to a certain sum of money being set apart as a contribution to the maintenance of the wives and families of the men, who lost their lives in the Antarctic. That question had been agreed to, but the sum was not definitely fixed. Another proposal before them was with regard to asking Parliament fen: an appropriation for the purpose of making the most of the scientific information obtained : by the members of the expedition. This i again had been agreed to, but the amount remained unfixed. On this third proposal he could assure them that the Government sympathised to the full with what was proposed. : Though Unable then to give a definite ' promise of a sum of money, he would pro- ' mise that when the proposed memorial : took definite shape it would reoeive , favourable consideration.

[ KINDNESS IN NEW ZEALAND. j 1 LETTER OF APPRECIATION. l' [BT TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] 3 CiraiSTCrnracH, Tuesday. The Prim© Minister (the Hen. W. F. ' Maßsey) received the following letter to-, day from Lieut. H. Pennell, master of J the Terra Nova — "Dear Sir,l have to express the sinl cerest appreciation and gratitude of the a whole expedition for the great help and - consideration shown by every Government f department to us, and, in fact, by the 1 whole of New Zealand. This help has 1 been rendered in every possible way, and 1 has been of enormous value. We all feel that New Zealand has accepted the ex--3 pedition as its own, and we leave these a hospitable shores with very great regret." t ==================