GIFT TO NEW ZEALAND
LIVERPOOL DOCKS PICTURE A handsome picture in water-colours, measuring lift, by 4ft., of the port of Liverpool, showing in detail tlie tremendous docking provision at that port, was unloaded from the Cornithic yesterday, and taken to Parliament House. The picture is a gift to New Zealand from the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board. When the representative of that body (Colonel Hawkins) was here last year ho intimated that the harbour authorities of Liverpool were desirous of presenting to NewZealand a painting which was in their possession if the Government would accept' it. Mr. Massey intimated at the time that the Government would bo willing to accept it, and, during the Prime Minister’s recent visit, arrangements were made to have the picture transmitted. It was so well packed that it arrived with its glass intact, and no apparent damage, however slight, to the frame.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 117, 9 February 1924, Page 6
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147GIFT TO NEW ZEALAND Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 117, 9 February 1924, Page 6
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