sentences:  A subsidy of £250 per annum was approved on 10 February 1922, by the Tasmanian State Government and appropriated for the new zoo.In March 1922 the Hobart City Council advertised for a curator to take care of the Beaumaris zoological collection that were still housed on the Roberts property.On the evening of 27 March the Hobart City Council Reserves Committee held a meeting to consider the applicants for the curator's position.