GUIDE TO THE ZOO

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2157, 25 May 1914, Page 6

GUIDE TO THE ZOO

TO M PUBLISHED SHQBTLt.

AQUARIUM DISCUSSED.

A meeting of the Ceuneil of the Wellington Zoological Society was held on Saturday afternoon. Tho Rev. J. UTOW6S presided. Tho secretary (Mr. John Castles) reported that the, president and ho' bad reconsidered a proposal (put before the council some time ago), that tho cotuicil ! snould publish a giudo to the Zoo, aad had consulted eover.il business men, who had espressod their fliilingucs* to assist in paying the cost of publicaMon. He also sttitod that Mr. Urawfes bad given him a lot of racy notes ©n the aiumals for inclusion in tho guide. The council unanimously decided to proceed with tho pviblication. :, The president introduced an intorea-t----ing discussion on the aquarium,, which the Government and tho City Council aro absut to put in at the toe, Mr. liockwood; spoke in wans tome of tiio aquarinm, «nd eaid that at the Auckland Exhibition it had been, to him, almost the. most attractive feataw*. The building in which it was installed was fathor impressive in appearance, and thft miniature pond and flashing fountains, added an additional iflterest to the aquarium. Tho tanks. wow> epscio-us ntid well suited to the exhibits, but the latter were not especially attractive, and the charge of. Is. for admission, when thero wne nothing uniqno of sensational to show, preventecl a igrcjit rnaiiy'people froni seeing what Was, to him, an interesting , edllcction, Mr. Lockwood thbaght that if tho Government and tiio City Council erected such buildings as those, -v-hich housed the aquarium in Attclsteiwl, and accepted the ndifjee and assistance of the Zoological Society, the aquarium would prove one of the most pleasing attractions at the Zoo. Messrs, Brown, Fathers, and Castle spoke in appreciation of tho gift, aud it was stated that the City Council ■ had always .been ready'to roseive the assistance of tho society tn matters connected with tito Zoo.