IMPERIAL INSTITUTE
CELEBRATION OF FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY.
May 10 last was the fiftieth birthday of the Imperial Institute, which was first financed by money subscribed by the people of the Empire as a jubilee tribute to Queen Victoria, a writer in the “Manchester Guardian” recalls. The Queen had laid the foundation-stone— Cape Colony granite on a pedestal of Indian bricks —in 1887, and when she opened the completed building in 1893 Princess Mary of Teck accompanied her to make her first public appearance as the fiancee of the Duke of York, who was to become George V. Since then the institute has come under Government control, and since 1925 it has been the responsibility of the Secretary of the Department of Overseas Trade. It still performs, though, its initial function of acting as a centre for information and research on the indtistries and resources of the Dominions and the dependencies. The war has interrupted some of its work and depleted its staff, but other of its jobs have acquired a new importance. And since it reopened a few months ago, after a war-time shutting up of nearly three years, it has become a favourite show-place for Indian, Dominion, and Colonial troops as well as for Londoners and their children.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 August 1943, Page 4
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