MR. S. HURST SEAGER

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 102, 4 May 1925, Page 9

MR. S. HURST SEAGER

LECTURES IN UNITED STATES.

(rROM ODB O*K COSRISPONDENT.) tw Jir L°N? ON ' 24th Mawh, Mr. and Mrs. S. Hurst Seager (Christchurch), who have been in. this country for a number o£ years, will set out ok. thejirst stage of their journey, homer on ord April. They, will travel'"by llio Andavia to New York, where Mr. Seager is to attend the Internationa] Town, Planning and Garden City Conference a* the delegate of the New Zealand Government. He will read a paper entitled ISew Zealand: Its Natural Beauty and Civic Development." He has also received and accepted an invitation to attend the conference of the American Institute of Architects in New York Bothi conferences will bo held in April. In response to a long-standing invitation Mr. Seager will also go to St. Louis to lecture before lh<s Art Directors of Museums Association on 22nd May. American Art Galloy authorities We quick to see the effectiveness of Mr Sea-gei-'s system of "Top-side !ightin<* :* and after an article on the subject fad? appeared in a. local technical journal, Mr.Meager was asked to come over and lecture. He will take thirty-nine sliSes with; him to illustrate his subject ' Mr.and Mrs. Seagcr are'to leave-Sara-J'ran Cisco at tlie end of June, They will call at Honolulu and Fiji, and expect to reach Christchurch in October During the last four years Mr. Seager has devoted a great part of his time tosuperintending the ejection of the New Zeatand battle memorials, of which he was the architect. He has made this a • work of love, and has practically seen every stale placed in position. He carries back with him 220 beautiful slides illustrating the monumente, cemeteries the process of construction, and onveilimr ceremonies, and these he ivill show in a series of lectures he. propceoa to give o* , his return to the Donmrim£ p i