NATIONAL MEMORIAL
MOUNT COOK SITE The report of the Director of the Wellington Technical College to the board contains some interesting remarks in reference to the proposed national memorial and art gallery. He says: —“The question of the site of the National Memorial and National Museum and Art Gallery is now under discussion, .and the proposal lias been made that a portion of the Mount Cook site should be set aside for this purpose. 1 think it may be well that the attitude of the Technical College on this important matter should be made clear. It is true that the erection of a big block of buildings on the front of this site would take, away all the best of our view, but that is of small importance when. the matter is looked at from a broad standpoint. The Mount Cook site is the centre of the population of Wellington, and is always likely to remain so. If the National Museum and the National Art Gallery are situated on a central site it is obvious that they will be much more used than if placed elsewhere. ■ In position. they will be adjacent to what will be three very large secondary schools and not far from four large primary schools. “Our Art school, which serves the whole of Wellington province, will, within a few years at least, bo removed to the Mount Cook site as a permanent location, and it would clearly be of very great advantage to the students r who are to be trained there to have such ready access to the treasures which the Art Gallery and the museum will contain if a distinctive national art is to be developed in New Zealand. From an educational standpoint, therefore, it is obvious that the Mount Cook site is the most desirable for the home of the National Museum and Art Gallery."
The members of tlie board generally approved of the proposal, and on the motion of Mr C. H. Chapman a motion was carried to the effect that the Mount Cook site was the best for tho project..
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12612, 24 November 1926, Page 3
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349NATIONAL MEMORIAL New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12612, 24 November 1926, Page 3
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