PICTURE CRITICISED

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 31, 5 August 1936, Page 13

PICTURE CRITICISED

"A WRONG IMPRESSION"

i Miss Irvine Smith, speaking on "The Maoris" at a meeting of the New ZeaJand Federation of University Women last night, raised an interesting point. She said that a wrong impression was given of the arrival of the Maoris in New Zealand by the famous picture by Steelef and Goldie ; which hangs in the Auckland Art Gallery. "It shows," she said, "an - emaciated ! crew being literally washed ashore by the winds of chance;" which she averred gave quite a wrong impression, the coming of the Maoris being no mere matter of chance but' a well-planned, long thought-out, and thoroughly organised migration. They arrived, she said, in the pink of condition.

Another picture in the same gallery Miss Irvine Smith said- she' lipped would counteract the .erroneous ' impression given by that of Steele and Goldie. In this she said the strong outrigger canoes are seen just coming Within sight of the new land, and the people, healthy and excited, are crowding eagerly into the prows to catch the first glimpse. "It is a shining, joyous picture," she said, "showing the swiftmoving ships flying before the wind."