CARNEGIE CORPORATION

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 32, 7 February 1935, Page 9

CARNEGIE CORPORATION

M. KEEPEL

COMPLIMENTARY ■ LUNCHEON

Dr.vF. p. Keppe], : president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and Mrs, Keppel were the guests at "a complimentary luncheon at the Midland Hotel.: yesterday, by the Board of Trustees.of the National Art Gat lery and Dominion Museum and the Council of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts. ,

, Dr. Keppel is making an extensive tour of the British Dominions with the object of inspecting various institutions which the Carnegie Corporation may be willing to assist-by riionetary grants. ; •' \, - . : ■

Among the. guests present were:-i-Tlie Prime. Minister (the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes), who is chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Art Gallery ■ and Dominion Museum, and Mrs. Forbes; Sir. Alexander Young <Minister of Internal Affairs), deputychairman of the' Board of Trustees; Sir Harold Beauchamp, member of the Board of Trustees, and Lady: Beauchamp; Mr; and Mrs. G. A. Bucklin; Mr. George A. Troup, chairman of the finance committee, and Mrs. Troup; Dr. W. R. B. Oliver, Director of the Do-; minion Museum, and Mrs. * Oliver;1 Mr. D. A. Eiiven, president of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, and Mrsl Eweri; Mr.T. R. Barrer,' chairman of the Wellington Harbour Board, and Mrs. Barrer; Dr. P. Marshall, representing the president of the Royai Society of New: Zealand, and Mrs. Marshall; Mr. B. C. Aston,' vice-president of the Royal Society of New Zealand; Mr. W. F.Hogg,:: vice-president of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, arid honorary solicitor to the Board of Trustees, and Mrs. Hogg; Councillor H. A. Huggins; Mr. F. H. Bass, secretary to the Board of . Trustees, and Mrs. Bass; Mr. W. H. Gummer, renresenting Messrs.. Gummer . arid' Ford, and partners, ; architects for the group of buildings;- Mri and Mrs. T. D. H. Hall, Dr. J. S..Elliott, Mr. and Mrs. W. Gray Young, Mr.: Nugent Welch, Miss Richmond, Dr. A. D.Carbery, council members of the Academy of Fine. Arts; and Mr. E. D. Gore, secretary of the Academy of Fine Arts. . ' . " . '■ • ■ . . : • . ' :■ ■

Apologies were received from the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, Xady" Young, "the" Mayor; (Mr. T. C. A. Hislop) and Mrs. Hislop, Mr. George Shirtcliffe, Lieut.Colonel A. Cowles, Mr. F. B. Dwyer, Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Cooke, and Mr. and Mrs; Aridrew Fletcher.

Mr. Forbes, in extending a welcome to Dr. and Mrs. Keppel, said that NewZealand was greatly indebted to,the. Carnegie' Corporation, for the assistance, it had given in the-past, particularly ,in regard: to' librariesi He. outlined the : factors leading -"up to 'the acquisition' of /the Art Gallery;'.; arid Museum,' arid 'said .that the establish; merit of the institutions, was due-to. the co-operation between, the' Government and, public-spirited citizens.. s'j^>v:>V

Mr. Ewen, pri behalf of the Acadeiriy of, Fine. Arts, also extended- a welcome to.Dr.and Mrs. Keppel. New Zealand, he said, was a young; country,' and therefore was all the more interested .in., the great movements taking place in other parts of the world,, particularly, in the. United States. •■ • There was a real desire in the Dominion to improve culture and to progress with the-timesA'•• Thanfes^4pi-pub.lic-spirited citiieris; of whom. Sir Harold' Beauchanip was one of the leaders, sin edifice, of which Wellington might -well be proud, would be provided. ~

In returning ..thanks for. the:'.warm \ ■welcome, ■ Dr. Keppel remarked that ■ a first-rate museum. iVfas almost a sure sign of a certain :stage of maturity, in. the life,'of ia.' community. ; ''•. ■

At the-cbnclusidn, of .'the function, the. party proceeded'to ..Mount Cook ito inspect4theVne\^buUdfegs::;;;;;>'; ?' : ; ■. ;;>.;.