SPECIAL STAR TELEGRAMS.
(Special to “Stab.”) Contract or Day Labor ? Dunedin, This Day, The City Council have referred to the Tramway Committee a question whether the Council should be their own contractors in the tramway conversion scheme. McKenzie Memorial Cairn. The McKenzie memorial cairn is designed by Lawson and Salmond to the order of the committee, it will be an imposing monument, and when erected on the highest point of Pukewaiti will form a gigantic laud mark visible for miles around. The cairn, which is to be built of unhewn stone, will bo 68 feet high and circular in shape, tapering from 30 feet in diameter at base to 8 feet at top. It will be surmounted by a Maltese cross one foot high with wreath, both in stone, resting on a massive concrete block six feet high by ten feet square. The stone of which the cairn will be constructed, is to be taken from the top of the hill on which it is to be erected. Municipal Loan?. The Mayor mentioned last night, at a meeting of the City Council, that there were loans maturing next year amounting to £13,100, and after taking into consideration the amount of sinking funds received, the saving to the corporation would be £BB4 per annum.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 14 December 1901, Page 4
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213SPECIAL STAR TELEGRAMS. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 14 December 1901, Page 4
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