PORTRAIT OF PREMIER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 304, 23 November 1937, Page 7

PORTRAIT OF PREMIER.

GIFT TO LABOUR CLUB. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Nov. 22. A, life-size portrait of the Prime Minister (Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage), for the painting of which an English artist, Mr C. H. H. Berry, was commissioned during Mr Savage’s recent visit to Great Britain, was presented to the Auckland Labour Club to-night by the Mayor, Sir Ernest Davis. The president of the club. Mr J. T. Jennings, welcomed Sir Ernest and also the Minister of Labour, Hon. H. T. Armstrong, who thanked the Mayor for his gift. It is proposed by the club executive to present the portrait, after twelve months, to the National Art Gallery. This course was approved to-night by Sir Ernest. Mr Armstrong, on behalf of the Prime Minister, thanked Sir Ernest Davis for his gift, and said' Mr Savage had undoubtedlv won a place as one of the greatest leaders New Zealand hard known. In the_ short space of time that it had been in office the Government had at least accomplished something in the interests of the people. It had also set the world talking about,New Zealand, as he (Mr Armstrong) had learned when he was in Etirope recently. He thought the Government had done as much for the people as any other section of the working-class movement in the world, and it would achieve even greater things if given the opportunity.