DOMINION ART FOR LONDON

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21941, 16 November 1936, Page 16

DOMINION ART FOR LONDON

EXHIBITION DURING CORONATION CANTERBURY SOCIETY ASKED TO CO-OPERATE .(press association telegram.) WELLINGTON, November 15. An announcement was made at the annual conference of the Association of New Zealand Art Societies that New Zealand, together with other British Dominions, has been invited to send a collection of pictures which are representative of art in this country for display in London during the King’s coronation. Arrangements have been made for the dispatch of what it is hoped will be a worthy collection early in February. : The following rota of exhibitions for 1937 was agreed to: —Waikato, May 3; Auckland, May 24; Napier, July 4; Nelson, September 4; Wellington, October 1: Otago. November 15. Regret was expressed that the Canterbury Society of Arts still desired to remain unassociatcd, and a warm invitation was extended to the society to co-operate in the selection of pictures for dispatch to the coronation exhibition. The following officers were elected; —President. Mr L. D. Bestall (Napier); vice-president, Mr Roland Hipkins • Wellington); secretary, Mr J. B. Brinsden; treasurer. Mr H. L. Cole. The Auckland, Hawke’s Bay, Nelson, Otago, Waikato, and Wellington Societies sent delegates to the conference and the New Zealand Institute of- Architects was represented. Dr. Washbourn. of Nelson, delivered the presidential address, in which he declared that art was a necessity and a desirable force, which if properly directed, might well illuminate the grim path trodden by most citizens in this mechanical age, and he regarded it as an essential part of pre- i sent-day human activity.