CHEATER OF FELIX THE CAT

Taranaki Daily News, 17 February 1933, Page 7

CHEATER OF FELIX THE CAT

CONSTRUCTION AT WELLINGTON. FUNDS FROM THE CARTER TRUST. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night In view of the proposals submitted to and approved by the Wellington City Council this evening a new observatory will probably be built on a site near the present building in the Botanical Gardens at a cost of about £3OOO. The observatory will be taken over by the New Zealand Institute, which will purchase the telescope belonging to the city at a price not exceeding £5OO. There is a proviso that it shall be available to the public one night a week. The observatory committee has been conferring with a committee of New Zealand Institute (trustees of the Carter bequest) for some time on the subject of erecting an observatory from the funds of the Carter bequest. At a meeting of the City Council it was recommended that the proposals submitted by the New Zealand Institute be approved and that the institute be granted a lease in perpetuity at a rental of Is per annum, if demanded, of a quarter acre section in the Botanical Gardens at Kelbum for the purpose of erecting an observatory. The governing body shall be the Carter observatory committee and it shall consist of five members, three being representatives of the Wellington City Council as providing the site and one representative of the New Zealand Astronomical Society as providing the staff and upkeep.