CIVIC HALL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18547, 6 November 1934, Page 6

CIVIC HALL

GISBORNE’S NEED WINTER. SHOW PROPOSAL MEETING TO BE CALLED An active campaign is being launched by the Poverty Bay Winter Show Association with the object of endeavoring to secure the provision of a civic hall which would fill the purposes served by the Garrison Hall, destroyed by fire in 1931, and with that aim in view a public meeting is shortly to be convened. At last, evening’s meeting of the general committee of the association the question of a suitable site for the 1935 Winter Show was discussed, and it was unanimously resolved that the association should convene a public meeting of all local bodies and organisations to discuss ways and means of building a suitable civic hall to replace the Garrison Hall. It was agreed that the Mayor, Mr. John Jackson, should be requested to take the chair, and that local bodies, sports associations, and other organisasntions should he circularised asking that representatives should be sent to tho meeting. In bringing the matter before the association, Mr. C. W. Armstrong made particular reference to the fact that in Gisborne there was no building sufficiently large to enable a reception to bd tendered to the Duke of Gloucester in the event of the weather being wet, aw? in this respect the town had always been seriously handicapped since the destruction of the Garrison Hall.

A sub-committee comprising the chairman, Mr. F. G. Murphy, and Messrs. Armstrong, J. E. Eivers, and J. McKay, secretary, was appointed to arrange for the calling of' a public meeting at an early date.