DOMINION’S CENTENARY.

Wairarapa Age, 19 June 1936, Page 5

DOMINION’S CENTENARY.

NATIONAL MEMORIAL PROPOSED. GOVERNMENT'S POLICY FORM OF CELEBRATIONS. WELLINGTON, June 18. Policy decisions of the Government in the preparations for the celebration in 1940 of New Zealand’s Centenary were placed before the National Centennial Committee by the chairman, the Hon. W. E. Parry, Minister of Internal Affairs, when the committee assembled in the Government Buildings to-day. The Government, said Mr. Parry, had decided that the event should be celebrated: —(1) By permanent memorials, ineluding a national memorial to be erected by the Government; (2) by a series of historical surveys of the first 100 years of New Zealand's national life; and (3) by suitable celebrations, both national and local, throughout 1940. Apart from the cost of the national memorial and the historical surveys, the Government contemplated providing £250,000 for the celebrations. The following resolution was passed: This conference concurs with the general policy of the Government as outlined in the chairman's address, and in particular considers that the proposed total allocation of £250,000 of Government moneys for the centennial celebrations is a most generous one, but recommends that the particular allocation of that sum be deferred for further consideration by the Government after discussion by a Dominion conference of provincial centennial organisations.— l (P.A.)