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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Palmerston Athenæum
Palmerston Athenæum. The Athenæum building, which occupies a convenient site opposite the railway station, was erected about 1880. It is of wood, and contains a library of about fifteen hundred volumes, and the reading-room is well supplied with papers and magazines. Through the efforts of the late Sir John McKenzie, as Minister of Lands, the institution was liberally endowed with a land grant, from which a revenue of £32 per annum is derived.