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(Per Press Association.) Napier, last night,
The Borough Council soma months ago wrote to Mr Carnegie for £2OOO with which to purchose the Athenaeum from tho present management, A reply has been received in which Mr Carnegie’s secretary asks : “Do you mean to say you would ask Mr Carnegie to give £2OOO for a wooden building erected in 1876?”’ The Council aro taking steps to acquire the Athenaeum withoutMr Carnegie’s aid.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1524, 4 August 1905, Page 2
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73WELL-DESERVED SNUB. Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1524, 4 August 1905, Page 2
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