Centennial Art Exhibition
[Per Press Association. Copyright ] DUNEDIN, This Day. “Too often in the past art has been more concerned with art schools and art societies than with the man in the street, who, after all, is the person who counts,” said the PostmasterGeneral when formally opening the National Centennial Exhibition of New Zealand Art, which is to be taken on a tour of the Dominion after its Dunedin season. The exhibition will be shown at Whangarei. It was the Government’s earnest wish, said Mr. Jones, that the exhibition would result in a cultural stimulus which would affect all classes. “Art should very properly concern itself with the life of the people if it is to rest on a healthy and secure foundation,” continued Mr. Jones, “and we should all remember in this Centennial year that, although one century of our country’s history has ended, another is just beginning. “We all build for the future, and in these days, when civilisation itself is imperilled, let us appreciate to the full the heritage which is ours. It is my earnest hope that in these troubled times the exhibition of New Zealand art will centre the thoughts of our people on the spiritual, rather than on the material, achievements of our race."
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Northern Advocate, 20 February 1940, Page 6
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210Centennial Art Exhibition Northern Advocate, 20 February 1940, Page 6
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