The Feilding Star Oroua and Kiwitea Counties’ Gazette SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1925. JACK ASHORE AS ARTIST.

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 523, 2 May 1925, Page 4

The Feilding Star Oroua and Kiwitea Counties’ Gazette SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1925. JACK ASHORE AS ARTIST.

It was writtenby Macaulay years ago that some day Great Britain would become so decadent that London would become a city of ruins, upon which New Zealanders would sit to sketch the ancient piles. Some of our hoys in their Blight] y and Highly days and nights helped to .paint some of London, and others have certainly sat upon old London bridge and sketched tho city. But it has remained for a son of London to somewhat reverse things by voyaging all the way out to this uttermost end of the earth and sketching a bit of our Greater Britain of the South. Many paint and sketch, but few have their work accepted. The cableman tells us that a Jack Tar when out. here last year on 11. H.S. Repulse with the special squadron that was headed by the Hood, sketched Oriental Bay whilst the fleet was in Port Nicholson. Frank Theodore, man-o’-warsman, sent his sketch to the Royal Academy, London, just before his ship left again on another long cruise, this time with the Prince of Wales on board. And the. Academy has accepted the Theodore sketch of a bit of Wellington. Therefore, that picture must he a work of art, conforming to the strictures of the Academy. Thus is the versatility and cleverness of Britain’s man-o 7 r warsmen proved in yet another branch of knowledge and skill; and what could ho hotter than that a sailorman should be a marine painter?