DUNEDIN ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 55, 6 March 1914, Page 2

DUNEDIN ITEMS

(BT TELEGIUPH—SPECIAL TO THE POST.) DUNEDIN, This Day. The Otago Art Gallery walls are to be enriched. The late Professor J. H. Scott bequeathed the gallery a particulaily fine example of John Gully's landscape painting in water colours, and the late Judge Ward left it four fine canvasses from the bush of the late Van der Velden. The unveiling of the Scott memorial at Port Chalnieis has been piovisionally fixed for the 23rd inst. The committee asked the Governor to unvi.il the memorial, but prior engagements prevented His Excellency from acquiescing. The' Prime Minister ,'iai boon asked to perform the ceremony. It has been suggested that it would be vety appiopriati' ueie General lan Hamilton piesent at the unveiling ceremony. Interviewed on his journey noithwards, the Minister of Defence stated to an Evening Post representative that there were three fresh staff appointments io_ be made, but lie could not disclose tho names at present. Major Richardson and Major Gardner would return at. tho end of the year. As for the cadets' parade in Dunedin during Sir lan visit, all the cadets coming fiom the interior and unable to return to their homes I^he same day would be billeted, but it was expected that the bulk of them would be conveyed homo that night.