YALE TELESCOPE

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11654, 19 October 1923, Page 7

YALE TELESCOPE

OF CONTRACT* REPORT TO ACICLAND COUNCIL; : Ter Press Association. AUCKLAND, October 18. The Mayor (Mr J. H. Gnn&on) presented to ‘the City Council. a report .on the negotiations ill regard to the; Vale telescope.; He stated the question first came.; under the . no'tice of. the, councilof the Auckland’lnstitute . in. . Ajjrij, _wliich ' referred the matter to the_City ‘CortndU.* -In .a. letter dated February 6tb the director of the Yale University stated'.'that the .Yale.. Lad made a, proposal tp The /Netv Zealand • Government about ttvo years ago, andwhile the Government bad expressed -Tuelf very .favourably inclined to ehter, into co-ope-ratran it had' been learned, -from several sources, that the .prospects fob reasonably prompt action were not very goody and could not be expected to improve' in the near future in: vie\y of the financial positoii of the Gdvernmeiit.' Tlie Yale authorities asked for advice, as promptly as .possible, as to -chances of the arrangement being carried out a.t Auckland.. . ... PROVISIONAL CONTRACT CONDI-, . . . T lONS, ■ ; : ' . The-'chief conditions'of the preivisibnal contract are: —Yale, authorities to provide' a. telescope complete and- fitTch aiixiHary apparatus as: may be- nefeßKnry S6t. .tire ivurk in.Vievv 'shcli 'tele-scope-to be of-Vo. .or-26. inches aperture and of long focal length. Yale also is to undertake the care and fipkeep. of the intjtrumentj and to; locate -observers, here for six months in the year. The Auckland authorities aro to erect an observatory on the site selected by Vale and to maintain it, aud provide a caretaker; Auckland authorities ■ are to have'the-right of the use.of the in-, strument half the time'and full information regarding all work‘to be available. The contract .id for- ten or. twenty years, at the discretionof’ Yale.’ with .a provision }or~erther- party acquiring rile other’*, interests,at-tlie .end-of each ten-year period. / .. i