SEDDON MEMORIAL COMMITTEE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8753, 1 March 1907, Page 2

SEDDON MEMORIAL COMMITTEE.

Per Press Association; Wellington, February 28.

A meeting of the General Committee of tho Redden Memorial movement was hold to-night to discuss tho position now existing with regard to tho perpetuation of tho late Premier’s memory. The Mayor said the statement that tho committee had allowed tho matter to cool down was not crodhablo to those who, made it> for Mr Sodden loomed large enough in New Zealand not to ho forgotten in a few months.

Tho Hon. T. N. Macdonald raid the committee was not to blame for any delay that had taken place. It had been doing its best to force from tho Government some answer to the expressions of ooinion received Itoui all over tho "colony. The City Council of Wellington, in supporting tho project for a National Technical College, .had offered an endowment amounting to £12,000, and the committee estimated that it could got from eight to ' ten thousand pounds in subscriptions. This, with the Government subsidy, would mean £40,000, yet the Government refused to give the land for the college. After a long discussion it was resolved that a, monument bo erected in the city to tho late Mr Seddon’s memory.