ROYAL PORTRAITS AT HOSPITAL
NO DECISION YET ON PLACE
Large signed and framed portraits of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were received by the North Canterbury Hospital Board on Wednesday. They will eventually be hung in the new board room. An immediate place for them was not decided. The chairman (MT V. C. Lawn) said there was no free space in the medical library, where the board now meets. The secretary’s office was also not suitable. . The portraits had been given to the Christchurch Hospital, not to the board, its officers, or anyone else, said Mr J. J. Brownlee. They should therefore be hung in the corridor, where they would be seen by patients, visitors, and the public. . Miss M. B. Howard said there was a risk of the portraits being taken from the corridor. The centre of the hospital was the boardroom, and the portraits should hang there, as similar ones did in the City Council Chambers. The chairman and the secretary (Mr A. Prentice) were asked to suggest where the portraits could be hung, x. The portraits themselves measure about one foot by 18 inches, with large mounts and silver frames. The Queen wears a tiara and evening gown and the Duke naval uniform, as in the portraits gifren to the city of Christchurch.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27308, 26 March 1954, Page 9
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