AUSTRALIAN PAINTING FOR ART GALLERY 15
. .. a •• —♦—r—- . . -: - v GIFT OF COMMONWEALTH v GOVERNMENT r ... .. ■ • .- ■ - • ■ ■ ■ ■ , .■■■■■■■’, a (HIM ASSOCIATION ’ TBUSOBAK.) WELLINGTON, -0ct0ber,3.,,,: 1 In a letter from Mr J. A. Lyons, Prime £ Minister of Australia, to the. Prime- * Minister of New Zealand (the-Rt. Hon. a M. J. Savage); the former states that his Government learned with very great interest of the'* establishment of .. the National - Art Gallery. He and his, • colleagues were .desirous of marking' the occasion by presenting,' to the gal-' lery a painting which would be typical of. the Federal capital. The Common- r wealth Government desired as an ex-
• ... / . , % : i pression of goodwill and the interest of Australian people' in the cultural progress and development of New Zealand that the gallery should accept a , painting of Canberra. ' , The execution of the painting has.. been entrusted to Mr-Robert Johnson, well-known landscape painter, of Syd- ( ney, and formerly of New Zealand, who' will begin wbrk almost hhmali- i ately. ’ ; • • ■' ; •' 1 About 15,500 books a year ate pubi lished in Great Britain, of which; 4800 * are, fiction, j - r j . i
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21905, 5 October 1936, Page 7
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