MATCH-STICK COTTAGE
(Own Correspondent—By Air Mail) LONDON, Dec. 8. Most people throw away burned match-sticks. Ellis Ahronson, aged 16, of Storks-road, Bermondsey, had a setter idea than that. He saved up ten thousand matchsticks. Then he used them, with a pot or two of glue and four years of uis spare tinie, in building a model cottage with tenuis courts and a tea garden. The model was on view at the exhibition of the Dunlop Art Society, which Sir Josiah Stamp opened at the New Burlington Galleries, London, yesterday. Besides models, more than a thousand artists, from 18 countries, who do not expect fame or fortune from their art, have sent paintings, embroideries, woodwork carvings, leather work and other handicrafts to the show, which will continue until December 19. This is the first international exhibition to be held by the society, which was founded three years ago by the Dunlop Rubber Company, to encourage its workers to make the most of their hobbies.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 14, 18 January 1937, Page 12
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