THE SOCIETY OF ARTS.
TO THE EDITOR.
Sir, —On several occasions I have seen allusions, in your paper, as to the advisability of the Society of Arts being constituted the guardians of the pictures in the Museum when they are transferred to the new Art Gallery. It is my impression that a body that deliberately preferred squandering their surplus funds in paying a secretary (though there were gentlemen willing to act in that capacity honorarily), instead of using those funds as a nucleus for an Art Gallery, has forfeited all right to any voice in the matter, and that the utmost that they can now claim would be a suppositionary right to be considered the only body fit to be consulted re the momentous question of banging the pictures in the gallery when it is built. I entirely agree with you that the City Council is the proper body to have charge of these precious works. They are a present to the city of Auckland, and the city representatives should be their proper guardians, not a dilettanti society of amateurs, who have not sufficient enthusiasm amongst them to produce an honorary secretary, or a nucleus fund for an Art Gallery.—l am, &c., Cosmopolitan. December G, ISS2.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6570, 7 December 1882, Page 3
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