Memorial Square Community Rooms Napier 2020
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Description
Built in 1925
Designed in Prairie style by architect Louis Hay
Text on signs –
1 –
“WOMEN’S REST
CITIZENS
ADVICE
BUREAU”
6 –
“MEMORIAL SQUARE COMMUNITY ROOMS
IN COMMEMORATION OF THE CELEBRATION OF
100 YEARS WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE
THESE COMMUNITY FACILITIES – INCLUDING THE FORMER
WOMEN’S RESTROOMS – WERE EXTENSIVELY RENOVATED
OFFICIALLY OPENED BY THE DEPUTY MAYOR OF NAPIER CITY
CR ANNE TOLLEY J.P.
31 JULY 1993”
7 –
“DESTRYOED BY EARTHQUAKE
1931
REBUILT – 1934
WOMEN’S REST
“REPOSE IS THE CRADLE OF POWER”
ERECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF NAPIER IN COMMEMORATION OF
CITIZENS OF THIS TOWN WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR
1914 – 1918
THIS STONE WAS LAID ON 24TH OCTOBER 1925 BY
HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL SIR CHARLES FERGUSSON. BARONET: L.L.D., G.C.M.G.; K.C.B., D.S.O., M.V.O.
GOVERNOR GENERAL OF NEW ZEALAND”
Location
Clive Square, NapierFormat of the original
Digital photographDate published
November 2020People
- J A Louis Hay
Accession number
491825Supporters and sponsors
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