NATIONAL ART GALLERY & MUSEUM

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 191, 15 May 1928, Page 14

NATIONAL ART GALLERY & MUSEUM

MAYOR’S MEETING TONIGHT

The attention of the public is drawn to an advertisement from the Mayor (Mr. G. A. Trotip) convening a meeting, for 8 o’clock to-night, at the Council Chamber to discuss the matter of the new Dominion Museum and National Art Gallery, to be erected on Mount Cook. This project is of national moment, and one that has been “in the air” for over a decade, but now looks like materialising. Towards the project the Government is acting generously to Wellington by donating a site on which a value'cannot be placed and £lOO,OOO, contingent on Wellington city subscribing a similar amount.

The Mayor is confident that the city will respond to the challenge, and already has information on which that confidence is based, which he will probably impart to to-night’s meeting. This meeting will be addressed by the Mayor. Sir Harold Beauchamp (a generous donor), and probably Mr. C. Wil- . son” (president of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts). At a special meeting of the original committee held yesterday—a body of ladies and gentlemen who did the spade work admirably—those present reasserted their' allegiance to the project, and enthusiastically agreed to “carry on” under the Mayor. The tone of the meeting was one of whole-souled enthusiasm.