CENTENNIAL YEAR CANTERBURY STONE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 138, 8 December 1938, Page 5

CENTENNIAL YEAR

CANTERBURY STONE

in one case at least, a county council contemplates the provision of a Centennial memorial by raising a loan and collecting the interest and sinking fund by means of a rate. Such a proceeding is definitely at variance with the Government's conception of a Centennial memorial, which should at least be a gift to posterity and not an obligation, and as a matter of policy it has already been decided that loan moneys will not be subsidised. As this council will be required in terms of the Act, to consider applications for subsidies for memorials, it would be advisable for it to define in general terms, the type of memorial regarded as suitable, and to pass a resolution accordingly.

I One possible feature of the Canterbury section of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition in Wellington in 1940 will be the use of stone quarried in the province for certain decorative purposes. It was suggested at the meeting of the Canterbury Court executive in Christchurch yesterday afternoon that a fireplace or some other ornamental piece of masonry cut from sandstone, similar to work displayed at the Sign of the Takahe, could be introduced into the Canterbury section and that an arch of some other stone would also add to the attractiveness of the architecture of the section. Hanmer Springs marble and limestone were mentioned as: materials which could be introduced into the decorative scheme.