THE LATE PROFESSOR SALE

Evening Star, Issue 19840, 13 April 1928, Page 2

THE LATE PROFESSOR SALE

PORTRAIT FOR MUSEUM Mrs Sale has sent to the Otago University Museum a portrait in oils of the late Professor Sale. The portrait, a powerful piece of work, said by friends to be a speaking likeness, was (minted by the late Miss Molly Sale. It will ultimately he placed in the George Sale department of classical arclneology in the, new museum wing; hut for the present it is exhibited in Hie main block, near the entrance. Professor Sale was a commanding figure in an earlier phase of New Zealand history. A Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, he came to Canterbury as a pioneer settler, and to Otago as a gokl miner. Tho development of the Westland goldfield was followed by a call to him to become superintendent of the field, with its turbulent population of 30,000 diggers. His strong personality dominated the field, ns is indicated by his popular title of “ King Sale.” In 1870 he was appointed to tho chair of classics in the newlyformed University of Otago, a post which he held over the long period of thirty-seven vears. He died in London in 1922. Friends and .students of the late Professor Sale have decided to erect a memorial to him in the new museum department of classical archaeology.