GREAT NATIONAL MEMORIAL.
GOVERNMENT OFFERS MOUNT COOK SITE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Prime Minister has forwarded to the Mayor of Wellington a letter in reference to the site for the National War Memorial, the National Museum and the National Art Gallery. The Government has decided that'the proper site for all these purposes is that known as Mount Cook. lie understands that the bells for the carillon are due to arrive at the latter end of this year, and that plans have been made for the erection of a campanile and to provide also, below a Hall of Memories. This can be made the main feature 0 f rue groii'i of buildings for the purposes indicated above, and the Government is prepared to make the Mount Cook site available on the understanding that the campanile is erected l'n such a position as not materially to interfere with the present Do fence Department buildings, which AS'ill remain in use by the Crown until such time as the money, up to £IOO,OOO, which the Government has agreed to subsidise on a £1 for £1 basis, has been collected. The Government would then be prepared to vacate the site entirely and hand it over to the Board of Trustees.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 25 February 1928, Page 5
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