THE MASSEY MEMORIAL.
NEW ZEALAND MARBLE APPROVED. (Per Lvted Press Association.) WELLINGTON, October 17. A meeting of the Massey Memorial Board was held this afternoon. The Prime Minister later announced that the design of the memorial at Point Halswcll had been finally approved, and that the report of Mr Hurst Seage-. the consulting architect, with illustrations and a detailed description of the memorial, would be published for general information on Wednesday. The model of the memorial, which is at present in Parliament House, will be exhibited in Wellington in the course of a few days. The Prime Minister further intimated that the board had approved the use of white marble from part of the Takaka quarries which had not previously been opened up, and which has been most favourably reported upon by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20232, 18 October 1927, Page 6
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139THE MASSEY MEMORIAL. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20232, 18 October 1927, Page 6
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