GIFTS TO CHRISTCHURCH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20111, 23 November 1928, Page 12

GIFTS TO CHRISTCHURCH.

ROTUNDA AND CLOCK TOWER. RIVER BANK IMPROVEMENTS. [by . telegraph.—own correspondent.] CHJiISTCHUHCH, Thursday. The Mayor of Christchurch, Rev. .7. K. Archer, to-day received a cheque for £4OOO from Mr. T. J. Edmonds, to cover the cost of the band rotunda which Mr. Edmonds is giving to the city and tho improvements which ara to bo made to the river bank in the vicinity of flie rotunda. Mr. Edmonds proposes to make * further gift to the city of a clock tower, which is to be erected on tho .triangular plot' in Oxford Terrace, near the Baptist Church. Tho council has granted Mr. Edmonds permission to use this plot. Tho donor will employ his own architect, and through him lot tho contract for tlio work, bearing the whole cost himself.

The band rotunda will be erected on the river bank in .Cambridge Terrace, between Colombo Street and Manchester Street. The other improvements will comprise shelters for the public, eight artistic electric light standards and the laying out of the grounds. The locality is to bo known in future as Poplar Crescent. Tho Mayor expressed his appreciation of Mr. Edmonds' generous gift and said the cheque had been deposited with the council on tho understanding that if the whole of that sum was not required the balance would be given back to tho donor.