CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL
CANTERBURY MUSEUM PLAN [bt telegraph—OWN correspondent"] CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday Of the 42 local bodies in Canterbury which have been invited to subscribe to the cost of extending the Canterbury Museum as a centennial memorial, four have agreed to contribute. The total of these contributions is £597 and the amount the Canterbury Centennial Memorial Committee has in view as necessary for the museum project is £20,000. At a meeting of the committee today it was reported that nine local bodies have approved the proposal that the museum be extended, but five of them have not yet decided how much they will contribute. Twenty local* bodies have refused to contribute, fne have deferred consideration, and eight havo not yet replied. .. ... The Christchurch City Council will hold a special meeting .next Monday to decide what support it will give to the centennial memorial and the fate of the museum project will be decided at the meeting.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23273, 16 February 1939, Page 15
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