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Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 268, 15 November 1934, Page 2

Miss Daisy Morgan, a local resident who received her -training in the art course at the Palmerston North Technical. School, was one of the most successful competitors in the exhibition of decorative art designs based on motives taken from New Zealand flora and fauna being hold in the Auckland War Memorial Museum during November, having gained a prize in the section for textile patterns for rugs. The exhibition is being held by the council of the Auckland Institute and Museum and the library and art gallery committee of the Auckland City Council to demonstrate how New Zealand flora and fauna can be used in industrial design. Mr. C. R. Ford, president of the Auckland Society of Arts, opened the exhibition last Wednesday afternoon. The jury of awards consists of Mr. W. 11. Gunner (architect), Professor C. RKnight, of Auckland Universitl College, and Mr. W. 11. Wright, of the Elam School of Art. Sompetitive sections, for which entries from all over New Zealand were received, were for designs for wallpaper, book decoration, woollen rugs, linoleum, wood-carving, architectural modelling of artificial stone, bricks and tiles, metalwork, pottery and porcelain, printed certificates, and decoration on tiny plane surface.