LORD BLEDISLOE’S SECRET.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 303, 20 November 1934, Page 6

LORD BLEDISLOE’S SECRET.

PORTRAIT OF LORD RUTHERFORD. Per Press Association. NELSON, Nov. 19. The Governor-General and the Lady Bledisloe were accorded a civic farewell at Nelson this afternoon. Glowing tributes to their work in New Zealand were paid by the Mayor (Mr W. J. Moffatt) and Mr H. Atmore, M.P. During the day visits were paid by Their Excellencies to various institutions.

His Excellency said that as an old friend of Lord Rutherford he had been particularly interested in Rutherford House at Nelson College. The impression he gained as he had walked through that delightful edifice was how very different were the conditions from those Lord Rutherford must have experienced many years ago when he was a pupil of Nelson College. “I shall tell him all about it when I return,” said Lord Bledisloe. Speaking at the civic farewell, Lord Bledisloe said he had often wondered why there was no portrait of Lord Rutherford in New Zealand by an eminent British artist. He was going to let them into a secret. It might interest his hearers to know that he anticiEated that before he left for England e would see such a portrait, executed by a British artist, in the National Art Gallery at Wellington. Possibly Nelson College might secure a replica. He looked upon Nelson as a centre of science and art education, richly endowed with floral beauty, which had been to them while in New Zealand a happy resort for rest and recreation. He looked upon the Cawthron Institute of Scientific Research as one of the most enlightened enterprises ever established. He appealed to the people of Nelson to preserve the beauty of their lovely territory from the vandals of commercialism.