AN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITOR

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 260, 3 August 1928, Page 5

AN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITOR

COLLECTION OF POSTERS. Miss Winifred Guy, who arrived this week from Sydney, touring the world with an . international poster exhibition, which she hopes to be able to display in New Zealand, began collecting for this,in an unusual. way. J ust after the. war she was. teaching in a boys’ grammar school at Brighton (England), and being always interested in the overseas Dominions, saw some of the pictures of. New Zealand at the High Commissioner’s Office, and it occurred to her that they would be excellent to interest her pupils in these countries. She visited the office, and while they could not let her buy any she was lent fifty. pictures for a start. So much interest was stimulated thereby among her scholars, that they became most proficient in knowledge of New Zealand. Thus she set about getting pictures of other Dominions, and. finding the London offices sympathetic, was able to start quite a good collection. While abroad on holiday she collected a number of posters of various places and countries, and. haying an empty room at her disposal, was able to arrange these .in it and have a permanent exhibition in the school. She wrote to people in different countries, and her collection increased: in fact, so many parcels arrived at the school that the headmaster said he could hardly get into bis own house, while the fame of the exhibition spread, and the Geographical Society meeting at Brighton asked to have the exhibit as part of. the conference.-

Thereafter, Miss Guy received requests to show it at various places, and the exhibition was taken to i number of provincial towns. ' Then Miss Guy thought she would like to exhibit it in' London, and. through the good offices of LordBurnham. the exhibition was held at the Whitechapel Art School. For this many exhibits, suc-h as models of ships and wireless, were loaned. Up to this time the exhibition had not been a moneymaking one. but Miss Guy herself approached authorities in Liverpool, and. a most successful exhibition was Im’d t-b«.-r for her own benefit. Miss Guy gave lectures on the pictures, and while she knew most of the European countries through travel, she felt a lack in that respect with the British Dominions, and determined to come out and see them for herself. ' Her visit to Australia, prolonged -for . seventeen months, has ‘ been most successful, and she hopes that- New Zealand will receive her as warmly, especially since It was from New Zealand House in London that she got her first start for her work.