SIR H. BEAUCHAMP'S GIFT.
FUND FOB ART BATT^
RAILWAY CADET HOSTEL
(By TeleErrarh.-Press Association
WELLINGTON, this d, T \ The Railway Department Las chased the property owned bv Sir Ha -i Beauchamp at a price of over < use as a hostel for cadets who Z!? the M ellingtou headquarters for I in jr.
'J he purchase money will b« dpvntJj by Sir Harold Beauchamp to a fand r providing a national art gailerv at m? lington. •
The property is the residence in r- rf Terrace, Thomdon, his f or *£ When the movement for the of the gallery of the New Academy of Fine Arts was moot«Lts: idea was put forth that the gallery should be national in the sense as the Dominion Museum. There was a suggestion that Wi should be 011 one site and even under'm« roof. ! ®"
The Academy resolved to dispose of fa gallery in Whitmore Street, and put tha proceeds into a National Gallery Funi Some money was collccted and is*in hatf and some is promised. 7
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 25, 31 January 1927, Page 8
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169SIR H. BEAUCHAMP'S GIFT. Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 25, 31 January 1927, Page 8
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