AUCKLAND SOCIETY OF ARTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12409, 23 October 1903, Page 6

AUCKLAND SOCIETY OF ARTS.

tKL,! h ' th<> sa !° Mts - Mat *e<*nie Am-M. f 2500 was bequeathed to the i; 1 ; oCiety ° AT3for the erection ° ..n art gallery, on condition that a freehold site is provided by the society itself The w» named is now available - and the society is enable' o^ 1 to 5° parchase a citable site. To for public support! society S at "f e th f the .... V wita every coiiiidenr#. frr assistance in adding °" more n-pFni and 5W''S& by S""** $£?£ wither art ThC followln * a ™ 8 imts June Hi* .v. »

Mr. Neil Munro, the novelist, who Is at present in Canada, in the " first glimpse'* of that country he contributes to a Glasgow contemporary, gives the advice he received from a friend—" the most distinguished poet in Canada." the first dav he was in the De pendency : " Don't write of the picturesque side of the- country, and when you go west I confine yourself to the -lories of countless. , thousands of acres of No. 1 hard "rain and I bo silent and subdued before the Rock ; | God's own Rockies, that have been desej crated enough by kodak and fountain pen i You are here, I take it, fur business facts • and not for chromo pictures ; we want trade ' and not tourist traffic;" to which Neil : Munro responded: "It is well—Board of j I Trade figures are my passion!"

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