NAPIER ART GALLERY

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 143, 2 June 1936, Page 4

NAPIER ART GALLERY

Extension by Means of Carnegie Grant FURTHER GIFTS A request to make available the land recessary to enable the Hawke’s Bay Art Society to extend the Art Gallerybuilding in Browning street was received by the Napier Borough Council last evening. A committee composed ot the chairman of committees and the council engineer was appointed to >n vestigate the matter with power to ad. The engineer, Mr W. D. Corbett, said that the question was whether the building should be extended north o, south. The latter course would mean the demolition of a building at present leased to Mr J. Vigor Brown. The lease did not expire until September, 1939. Reference to the Carnegie Grant was made yesterday by the secretary of tin, Hawke's Bay- Art Society, Mr L. L. Bestall, who said that advice had been received that the amount of the grant was now in New- Zealand and would shortly be handed over to the society. “We are now awaitiug the decision ol the Napier Borough Council in regard to the site for the building extension,’ he said, “and when that is received, the building work will continue.’’ Mr Bestall also stated that the Car uegie Trust had offered his society an art library, valued at £2OO or £3OO. Further donations were a collection of old lace bobbins from Lady McLean These had been in the art gallery for some time, but were on loan. They hav'i now been given for the institution.