SERVICES TO ART

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 286, 29 August 1931, Page 8

SERVICES TO ART

Two Past Presidents ACADEMY’S TRIBUTE Speaking last evening at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, the chairman, Mr. G. A. Troup, paid a tribute to the great work done for the academy by the late Hon. T. Shatter Weston and the late Mr. H. M. Gore, both of whom had passed away during the past year, and both of whom were past presidents of the academy, Mr. Weston having been president at the time ot his death. Mr. Weston had served the academy In many ways, Mr. Troup said, and had had an Intense love of pictures and a very great discrimination in the selection of them. ■ Mr. Troup said that he did not know whether there was any man in Wellington, or, he might almost say, in New Zealand, who had done more for art than the. late. Mr.. H. M. . Gore. The academy at Wellington owed him a very, very great debt, and they all remembered the many efforts which he had made on the academy's behalf- He was not only great in that way, but as a painter also, and In addition to that he had been one of the most likeable of men. They were indebted to him in a hundred and one ways—perhaps more than to any other man—for the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts. Mr. Troup moved a vote of very great appreciation of the work that had been done in the past by Mr. Weston and Mr. Gore; The meeting stood in silence for a moment as a mark of respect to their memory.