The Queen's Jubilee Fond

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 129, 7 May 1887, Page 3

The Queen's Jubilee Fond

: — ♦ TO THE RDITOR OF THE STAR Sib, — The public have been informed through your columns that at the meeting of the Feildirig Borough Council on Thursday last, it was resolved, in response to a eommunicatioirfrom die Colonial Secretary that; the Mayor and Councillors should be' 1 a committee for thepurpose of .taking steps for raising subscriptions in aid of the Imperial Institute to be established in London in commemoration of Her Majesty's Jubilee. This committee axe now taking the requisite steps for carrying out the above resolution, and, as I~ believe that the nature and object of the proposed Institute are not generally known, I shall be obliged if you will permit me shortly to explain them as pointed out by the' cominunicati6n from the Colonttl Secretary and the pamphlet . „ < . The Institute originally proposed by the Friuce of Wales, and at an influential meeting held at St. Jamea^'Paiace on the 12th January last it c was unimously resolved, That the f^Sfidation of an Imperial Institute "foV the United Kingdom/ the Colonies, and India would, as an exponent of its industries and commercial resources, be a national memorial fitting to commemorate the completion . of the 50th year of Her Majesty's reign, and it wad further resolved « that an appeal be made to the sub"jectsof the Queen throughout Her •* Majesty's dominions to give a gen- «* erous support to the establishment "and" maintenance of such Imperial "Institute." . The object, of the Institute is for e^eburagement and advancement of industrial -knowledge, equivalent to that which has be^en afforded by the JtojttL sociely and the IJjiiveisities in

regard to science and learning^ . ' Such an institution cannot fail to be higtilj beneficial to all parts of the I and from a New Zealand point of view the following remarks of the Colonial Secretary seem to be apjnopriato : "- " As a means of making known the resources of the Colony the Institute will be of great benefit which will arise' from the aid it will give in improving its manufactures and productions." The climate and water power New Zealand must give this colony great advantages in the way of producing and manufacturing, and it cannot be a matter of indifference to this distant portion of Her Majesty's possessions that the memorial of the Queen's Jubilee is to take a shape which will give to those- engaged in industrial pursuits opportunities which have never before been^enjoyed.^ With respect to subscriptions in aid of the Institute the following notice has been issued by the organizing committee in London :— "As this national memorial is to be representative of Her Majesty's subjects throughout, the world without distinction of class or race, contributions ranging from the smallest. coins of the realm upwards, will ; be gladly received and will be individually recorded."—l am, &c., . Samuel Goodbehbeb, Mayor. Continuation of reading matter on 4>th page