PRIVATE VIEW

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 27, 1 February 1941, Page 16

PRIVATE VIEW

MANY GUESTS AT NATIONAL

ART GALLERY

Amid the handsome setting of the National Art Gallery, Buckle Street, many people interested in art were present last night to view the new collection "of facsimile colour reproduce tions of famous paintings. The exhibition was opened by Dr. A. D, Carbery in the absence of the chairman, Mr. D. A. Ewen, M.8.E., and an interesting address was given by Dr. Carbery. Others in the official party were Lady Shirtcliffe, Mr. and Mrs. T D. H. Hall, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Fearn, Mr. A. B. Thompson (Auckland); Mr. Ernest Hunt, Mr. H. C. McQueen, Mr. Eru Gore, and Mr. F. H. Bass. ;

Attractive evening gowns were worn by many of the women present, the mild summer evening enhancing the occasion, for few furs or wraps

\.ere worn,

Among those present were. Mrs. Peter Fraser, Mr. and Mrs. , Sinclair Thompson,* Miss Mary Butler, Mr. Nugent Welch, Mrs. Charles Todd, Mrs. P. B. Cooke, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Baker, Mrs. Sprott, Mrs. E. W. G. Coleridge, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Barber, Mr. Clere, Mrs. T. P. Fotheringham, Dr. Robert Stout, Mr. J. W; M. Harrison, Miss Mary Seaton.; Mr. 'and Mrs. R. J. Waghorn, Mr. and Mrs. Basil Honour, Mr. G. Anscombe, Miss Margaret Butler, Mrs. L. P. Hay ward, Dr. and Mrs. Corkill, Dr.. and Mrs. J. R. Simpson, Mrs. D. Rodie, Miss Mollie Rodie, Mrs. Coventry, Mrs. E. E. Gillon, Mr. J. Gillon, Mrs. L. Smith, Mrs. Witt, Mrs. A. E. Boya, v.Mrs. James Bennie, Miss G. Plimmer, Mr. and Mrs. H. Vickerman, Miss V. Dawson, Mr. and Mrs. J. Gray. Miss Lucy Nelson (Pahiatua).Mrs.Duff Daysh, Mr. C. Todd, jun., Misses P. and M. Gledhill, Mr. "Hall, Miss N. Macdonald; .Mrs, W, McKinnon,. Miss P. Tustin, Miss P. Alexander, Mrs. Gilman. Miss Tui Anderson, and Miss M. Wilcox.