CENTENNIAL COUNCIL

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21216, 10 December 1938, Page 8

CENTENNIAL COUNCIL

National Historical Committee Outline Of Its Task By Telegiapli—Press Association WELLINGTON, December 9. The Minister of Internal Affairs ‘.Mr W. E. Parry) was present at the meeting of the National Centennial Council, and outlined the task undertaken by the National Historical Committee. The Minister said the main series of surveys would cover such important phases of national development as the initiation of settlement, the creation or the machinery of government, the establishment of the farming industry, and the part played by women throughout the course of our history. These would be supplemented by a rather more popular series, which be largely pictorial, although each number would contain important historical essays on some phase of our history, covering topics as diverse as the whaling industry, the building of the transport system, housing and voyaging out. The most ambitious single publication would be a centennial atlas containing reproductions of the charts of Tasman and Cook, Maori history .soil, climate, etc. Next to he list would be a dictionary of New Zealand biography. Mr Parry said that the impression that the marking of the centennial by celebrations and memorials was a matter solely for local bodies was erroneous. It was the desire of the Government that the celebrations should bi on a national basis, that every section of the people through their community organisations should be associated with the observance, and that as far as possible every individual should b? given an opportunity of subscribing to the centennial fund.