SCIENTIST’S PORTRAIT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 81, 4 March 1935, Page 2

SCIENTIST’S PORTRAIT.

LORD BLEDISLOE’S GIFT. WELLINGTON, March 1. An interesting ceremony took place prior to the meeting of the board of trustees of the National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum to-day, when His Excellency the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, offered to the board of trustees, for the national gallery collection, a portrait painting of Lord Rutherford of Nelson, by Oswald Birley, the eminent New Zealand artist.

The Prime Minister, the lit. Hon. G. W. Forbes, replied on behalf of the board that they were most happy to accept the portrait for the Dominion and to arrange for a fitting place for it on the walls of the gallery when completed. His Excellency could rest assured that the people of the Dominion would deeply appreciate his most generous and thoughtful action. At the subsequent meeting of the board the following resolutions were unanimously passed : “That the board accepts with great pleasure the gift of the portrait of Lord Rutherford of Nelson for the National Art Gallery, and records its deep appreciation of the action of His Excellency the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, in presenting the portrait to the Dominion of New Zealand for its national collection.” “That the members of the board of trustees record their deep appreciation of the keen interest taken in the National Art Gallery. Dominion Museum, and Carillon, bv His Excellency the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe.”