BURNS STATUE FOR TIMARU
GIFT OP THE MAYOR. Press Association. TIMARU, February 5. The Ti~m.-i.rn “Post” learns that Mr James Craigie, M.P., is offering a generous gift to the citizens of Timaru. It it a very handsome Carrara marble statue of Robert Burns, standing six feet high, on a pedestal of Coromandel granite, also six feet high, surmounting a Timaru bluestone base. It is proposed to erect tho statue, which will be shipped from Naples, next month. Mr Oraigie’s gifts to tho town during his ten years’ tenancy of tho Mayoralty and since include a fine avenue of trees, valuable gifts for tho Art Gallery, and chimes for the new Post Office dock.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZTIM19130206.2.37
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8347, 6 February 1913, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
113BURNS STATUE FOR TIMARU New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8347, 6 February 1913, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the New Zealand Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in