NATIONAL WAR MEMORIAL
APPEAL CAMPAIGN INSTITUTED. WELLINGTON, May 16. For some time the Government lias kept open a standing offer to give a site at Mount Cook and £lOO,OOO for a National War Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, if the citizens of Wellington would subscribe another £lOO,OOO. The Mayor informed a meeting that £56,000 had already been subscribed in sums of £lOOO to £15,000. A powerful committee was set up to’ push the campaign. Subscriptions will be invited outside Wellington, as the war memorial is a national matter.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3871, 22 May 1928, Page 18
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88NATIONAL WAR MEMORIAL Otago Witness, Issue 3871, 22 May 1928, Page 18
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