Paintings given
The Lyttelton Harbour Board will give two paintings hanging in the Lyttelton Port Company building to the Robert McDougall Art Gallery, it decided at a meeting yesterday. The board’s secretary, Mr Tony Gemmill, said the gifts were made on condition the paintings would be available for hanging in the port company building. One of the paintings, by John Gibb, of Lyttelton Harbour, circa 1866, has been valued about $50,000. The board bought the painting in 1983 for $lB,OOO. Board members had expressed fears that the paintings, if given to the Lyttelton Port Company, would be lost from public sight, after they had been bought with public money.
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