25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 256, 26 July 1935, Page 10

25 YEARS AGO

Art Gallery Plans

(From “The Dominion,” July 29, 1910.)

It is understood that the site to be set aside by the Government for the purpose of a National Art Gallery will be a portion of the Dominion Museum block in Museum Street, Wellington. It is only a few yards away from the newly formed Art Club’s premises in Bo’wen Street. It has long been the intention of the Government ti> remove the Dominion Museum, now a storehouse of treasures which deserve a better and safer abode, and the scheme to be prosecuted at some remote period is to build a museum in front of the Alexandra Barracks at Mount Cook (Buckle Street), leaving the valuable section in Museum Street for other purposes. Under the new street widening scheme Wellington Terrace will be continued in a direct line to Sydney Street, displacing Museum Street, altogether, which rearrangement would add considerably to the depth, and consequently to the value of the ground now occupied by the museum.

The debate in the House of Representatives on Mr. Massey’s no-confidence amendment (on the land question) to the address in reply was continued yesterday and the amendment was lost by the close margin of 41 votes to 31. * * *

Tiie empty clock tower of the Wellington Town Hall has been the source of inspiration to an enterprising firm of drug manufacturers. They have offered the City Council £5O per annum for the privilege of displaying in the four spaces of the clock tower their conviction that their particular brand of patent medicine does all that is claimed for it. The council declined unanimously.

The Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, the Primate of Australia (Dr. Wright), has declared the use of 'vestments to be illegal.