SOUR OBSERVATORY.
MR. CAWTHRON’S GIFT.
The circumstances under which Mr Cawthron, of Nelson, offered to defray the cost of the new solar observatory were related by Miss Proctor, in the course of a speech at a meeting in Wellington the other evening. In describing her tour in the Dominion, she mentioned that her lecture in Nelson, just before Mr Cawthron promised his great gift, was delivered on the anniversary of the day when she set out from New York on her lecturing tour. On that afternoon she had gone to see Mr Cawthron to run through her lecture with him, and when she was gathering up her slides she heard him say to the president of the Nelson Institute : “How much do we require to establish an observatory?” He was told in a matter-of-fact tone: “About or £12,000.” To her great surprise, be said: “That is all right. I shall be glad to give it.” That was how the great gift was made. Mr Cawthron’s generosity. Miss Proctor said, would not only enable New Zealand to take a first place in the scientific world, but it would also forge the final link in the chain of observatories round the planet.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1111, 19 June 1913, Page 4
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200SOUR OBSERVATORY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1111, 19 June 1913, Page 4
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