EMPIRE AND ART
REQUEST FOR LEGISLATION LENDING WORKS OVERSEAS LONDON, March 5. ' Sir James Parr, Mr. J. G. McLaren, Official Secretary at Australia House, and all Australian Agents-General, supported a deputation from __ the Empire Art Loan Collection Society, including .Lord Conway, urging Mr. MaeDonald again to promote legislation to enable works of art in national galleries and museums to be loaned to Empire countries. Mr. Malcolm MaeDonald introduced the deputation, which' his father sympathetically received. Mr. C. R. Chisman, joint organising director of the society, sails by the Rangitata on Thursday with the collection which is being exhibited at Dunedin, Auckland, and Australian capitals. Last April, the New Zealand High Commissioner, Sir Thomas Wilford, and the Australian Agents-General, appealed to the British Government to promote legislation to enable works of art in British galleries to be lent to public galleries in the Dominions for the benefit of those people unable to visit Britain. The exhibition mentioned in the cable includes the finest display of contemporary British art ever collected for exhibition overseas. The Empire Loan Collectors' Society has secured paintings, drawings, and prints illustrating 70 years of British art. Private owners have generously lent their favourite pictures.
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Evening Post, Issue 56, 7 March 1934, Page 9
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197EMPIRE AND ART Evening Post, Issue 56, 7 March 1934, Page 9
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