PARTING GIFT
PORTRAIT OF LORD RUTHERFORD PRESENTED BY GOVERNORGENERAL (By Telegraph—Press Association? WELLINGTON, This Day. Lord Bledisloa, in the course of his i c ply to valedictory addresses of Professor Speight, as president of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and Dr. Marshall, as president of the Philosophical Society of Wellington, at a gathering of representatives of scientific societies in every part of the Dominion said : “I have offered to the Prime Hinder as chairman of the trustees of -the new National Art Gallery of New. Zealand—as a parting gift to the nation—a portrait of Lord Rutherford of Nelson, the Empire’s most distinguished scientist, painted by an eminent British artist, Oswald Birley, himself of New Zealand. It is an exact replica by Birley himself of a portrait which he made tliree years, ago at the request of the Fellows of the Royal Society for presentation to the Royal Institution of London, where it now hangs. I trust the trustees of your National Art. Gallery may deem this portrait of New Zealand’s greatest son to he worthy of a place upon its walls.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 20 February 1935, Page 2
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182PARTING GIFT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 20 February 1935, Page 2
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