Planetariums As War Memorials
WELLINGTON, Jan. 30. 4The Eoyal . Astr.o'nomieal Sotilbty of New Zealand, at its annual 'meeting o» Saturday, resolved tliat the suitability of a planetarium as a national or provincial war memorial be brought before the authorities and the public.. Mr. I. L. Thomsen, director of the Carter Observatory, said most • people deslre a memorial both beautiful, useful, digniiied, permanent and symbolic. A planetarium would meet such a desire. Planetariums represent the sky and consisted of a dome wliere the sun, moon and stars move in their correct constellations and courses. Mr, Thomsen said there could be an anditorinm in the bnilding for remembranee sexvices and other dignified functions. The cost of a dignified but not ornate planetarium would be ahout 50,000 dollars in the United. States. Becanse of import difiiculties it might be easier to obtain one from Germany where^ there were one or two in which the buildings had been destroyed "but the equipment undamaged.
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Chronicle (Levin), 31 January 1949, Page 3
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