ART GALLERY FUND

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 80, 15 October 1928, Page 11

ART GALLERY FUND

: . ■■..••:,:.x •.*•,.: —— ••>. The collectors; for the National Art Gallery aiid .Musdumi Fund are still mooting with considerable success. The Mayor (Mr. G. A. Troup) commends the appeal .to the citizens, and points out that the book of 'naiiies in which every subscriber's name will be entered will: be placed in .the entrance hall of the art gallery : as'-well, as the museum, so that in'the1 years .jbo.:cpme.those who contributed.to the erOctiohlof the buildings will still be, romembered.. Everyone who .has; an :i,aterest.;.in Wellington should see thathisliaine is inscribed on the recorcL' ■; „■':■'■•....'. . "A pleasing feature of■ the campaign,"said Mr. Troup, ,"is' jho>hcarty manner in wliiclitheV'.old: .residents of the city arc subscribing.-Over £ 82,000 has been subscribed) ■ yet" the, total number of -.subscriptions if] under 700j which leaves over 100,000, prospective subscribers still to come to light if the slogan 'every citizen d subscriber' is to be oilectivc." . . , , Mr. Troup said ''< that/tlid.' executive wa's under an obligation to .the 1 collectors, every one of whom was acting in an honorary capacity. JS'o costs whatever would be deducted, from the' subscriptions'. being . canvassed for, and ovcry contribution.would be credited" in full to the fund.":' :> :,K' y" In connectidn'w'ith, the -"Dream of .Fair Women," the' folloiivtrtg ciueens arc •announced';—-i't.''-;;'.',i';'-:'llv. ■■■," \',:U:- v . "QueenV6£i:SJife'b!l^(Sliss l Alison Kirk-, caldie), l'eprespiitirig'rcoinmdrcc. ' "Cleopatra'*::(.(Miss,;fl.'ip.r(];. Meadows), repr£scnting:'.tr;aiispprJ;p,tion,V : ■■.. "Atalanta^^Mjs^fcHvyinburuo), representing' spoi'W.C: -<i;;ii'>: '■'■'■-.; '■'■:< : "Youth",..(the^education queen) will be ..announced"'to-morrow;' the Labour queen on Wednesday; the ontertainmonts and.music queen to-morrow afternoon; and the immifcipal queen to-mor-row night. ' ' ': ,;.' All money 'obtained, fr.oin votes must be paid to the treasurer; iv the carnival office. It is essential that it must bo kept separate from the Mayor's fund. There is to be a. rehearsal on Thursday evening, at 7.30 o'eloc> in the Town | Hall, of the League of Nations pageant.