CITY OBSERVATORY

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 121, 18 November 1932, Page 11

CITY OBSERVATORY

USE OF CARTER 1 BEQUEST

COMMITTEE'S PROPOSAL

The Observatory Committee, consisting of Councillors S. Holm '(chairman), H. A. Huggins, and J. McEldowney, and Messrs. C. G. G. Berry and A. C. Gitford, and Dr. C. E. Adams, last evening reported to the City Council that they had conferred with representatives of the New Zealand Institute in regard to the. erection, of,an observatory from funds provided by the Carter Bequest, and as a result had to- recommend the following proposals:—

1. That the New Zealand Institute (trustees of the Carter Bequest) should be granted a lease in perpetuity at a rental of Is per annum (if demanded) of a quarter-acre section in the Botanical Gardens, Kelburn, for the purpose of erecting'thereon an observatory at a cost of approximately £3000.

2. That the telescope owned by the council should be handed over on loan to the trustees of the Carter Bequest for a minimum term of ten years for use on the proposed site.'

'3. That the governing body should be the Carter Observatory Committee, and should consist of seven members, four being representatives of tlie Now Zealand Institute as Carter trustees, two being representatives of, the Wellington City Council, as providing the site and telescope, and one being representative of tho New Zealand Astronomical Society, as providing ; the staff and upkeep.. . 4. That the telescope should -be available for the use of the public for at least one night a week at.a small charge to bo feed by.the Carter"Observatory Committee from time to time, and'that the charge, should bo approved by the council. : ' ■■■■;.

The amendment, moved by Councillor F. Meadowcroft.-thatthe.council should enter, "into negotiations with th<? .Carter trustees with a view to selling the telescope to them, was adopted.