MAY NOT RETURN

Northern Advocate, 15 August 1931, Page 13

MAY NOT RETURN

jouSnet. i*A ' > ! . Australia, probably fpr ever, and' 'taking with him drawings, crater colours, and etchings worth a small fortune, Mr. Norman Jjindsay aad some caustic comment, to make before, the ’ Aorangi' sailed • (says the (Sydney Sun”). l'> He was disgruntled with the treatment he has receiyed in'Austrjftia, the banding of his boolc and the recent trouble over a number o£ a magazine containing- bis works. f‘l consider if is the duty .of Australians to fight the. process which has eternally said? ‘* I Ijave always x fought forl.ftfedom of expression 'here, and f if Australians are not going tp appreciate the value of thinking for themsplyeA smy Bot lesejrve anything. “I will, hold an exhibition ip New fork, and I will 'decide. J by th% result svHht going to do.' '1 wifi' come back if ft pleases ine, and I wRI stay iway if it of for th f| P Mt twenty’ the ship with turn. The 4 $6 big pen f . coloUr | and 100 etching's. ’ -Who is accompanying t estimated the value of thc,.pen , drawings at 6500 each.' ’ ( pen drawings are ,K&. work, and will live for ever. They are going right out of the country, and they will not cojfte back, even if I have to give them away in sew fork,” added Mrs. Lindsay. - s . Modernity, Mr. Lindsay in an [interview givSpl) .in- Auckland,, was tasting off usefess.convention, ud was seeking realifcieis,<; not imitations. The present . thought, was re* turpibg to the Gre^'l-i4e^ ? |with .its tStsorfHaP love of- ,9imiificttyß v Life waS pfeing regarded hot as malleable to the dictates-of but as destiny [tself. Thought^,about things was be? doming as It were, Strom a maze \ . indecision and confusion, with clarity, was coming sanity. This again was avyetnrn to Greek tradition, land in, the same way as that whVh the' Greeks had said had lived, bemuse, of, its simplicity, so that whiohlthe present and future generations would have to say would endure beeaush 4^ its directness. “These things arc*most noticeable in the youth of.totj’ay,-but the youth of today is the example of tomorrow, and this is. a time , when wo need ail the sanity of outlook we have.”