OFFICIAL WIRELESS

Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1929, Page 3

OFFICIAL WIRELESS

EXHIBITION OF ART

WORKS OF INESTIMABLE.. VALUE.

(British Official Wireless.)

lUGBY, Dec. 2.

Active preparations are being made for the shipment to England of works ol art of inestimable value, which will lie on view at the Italian art exhibition at Burlington Hou e, London, which opens on Jan. Ist. Italy is making a superb and generous contribution to the exhibition, and in a few days the steamer Leonardo- da Vinci, escorted by warships, will leave Genoa for England packed with priceless pictures. Over 330 important paintings, of the ICO which will he included in the exhibition, are coming either from Italian galleries or Italian private owners. They have been collected from every corner of the country, and represent every period of Italian art, from Cimahne. “before whom there was no art,” to Segutini. Included among the pictures are Raphael’s “Sacred and Profane Lo» er,” Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus,” Tintoretto’s “Adam and Eve,” and several of uiorgionc’s. The immense value of these treasures can be gathered from the fact that one nioture alone was insured for £500,000. The academy of the Brora, at Milan, lias been made the collection centre for the works of art, and also for the immense insurance operations which have been necessary.

Apiirt from tlie works sent from Italy, anti t;o!looted in England, another collection of pictures of unique importance will come from the Louvre in Paris, the Kaiser Friodorich Museum, in Berlin, the R.vk.x Museum, Amsterdam, and other famous Continental and American collections. HIG H -SP FED MOTOPJNG. THE PEN DINE ,SANDS COURSE. RUGBY, Dec. 2. Motor-racing experts are to make a careful inspection of Pemline Sands Carmarthenshire, to consider the possibility of adapting them to motor record-breaking conditions. Although the sands extend for seven miles and are, in certain conditions of wind and tide, suititble for high-speed car attempts, there is a stream at one end of the mil whi h is considered to form a ■dangerous obstacle. The problem is whether this obstruction can be overcome in order to give a long enough course. 'Hie inspection is being undertaken mainly at the instance of the Sunbeam Motor Company, which- has constructed the four thousand horse-power Silver Bullet, a car in which Kayo Don hopes to improve on the world’s record of 2:11 miles an hour that was established by Sir Henry Segrave on his one thousand horse-power Dving-Nap-icr Golden Arrow at Daytona, America. Captain Malcolm Campbell also has ambitions to establish a fresh record with his I3CO horse-power Blue Bird, that was designed by himself. He will use Pendinp Sands if they can he made suitable.

water speed record. BRITISH ATTEMPT PREPARING RUGBY, Dec. 2. A motorboat designed to have a speed of 120 miles an hour is under construction at Cowes, in the Isle of Wight, and will be used in the British attempt that is to be made on the water speed record, and the lu-te-national Motor Board’s trophy on the Detroit River, next year. Permission lias been obtained from the Air Ministry to use two RollsRoyce engines similar to those useo in the sea-pane which won the Schneider Cun Trophy for Britain this year, and which are still on the secret list. Tne craft will be called Miss England 11. She is being built on behalf of Sir Charles Wakefield, and is being designed by Air Fred Cooper in collaboration with Sir Henry Segrave. who will be the pilot. The boat will bo .uirly-eight feet long with a nineinot beam. Her engines will develop four thuisaud horse-power. KING AND QUEEN OF DENMARK. VISIT TO ENGLAND. RUGBY, Dec. 2. The King and Queen of Denmark arrived at London last night, and were met by the Prince of Wales. \fter staying at London for four days, they will go to Sandringham, Norfolk, as the guests of the King and Queen. To-day King Christian and Queen Alexandrine held a recepti in to the Danish colony, and on i uesdny King Christian will visit Aldershot to inspect the Second Battalion of the East Kent Regiment, of which he is colonel-in-chicf.