EXHIBITION PICTURES.
COMING TO NEW ZEALAND.
By Telegraph Press Association.—Copyrijrht. London, February 22. Mr. John Baillie has sent to New Zealand 500 representative British pictures, valued at £20,000, to be exhibited for a month each in Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington and Dunedin municipal galleries.
The Christchurch Society of Arts (telegraphs our special correspondent) recently arranged to purchase £1000 worth of pictures in En -land, but has decided to postpone any English purchases until its representativ s have inspected at Wellington the col clionsent by Mr. ISaillie. It is noteworthy in connection with the proposal to establish a national gallery in Wellington that the usual annual subsidy of £500 to the Christchurch Society of Arts has not been forthcoming this year.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14925, 24 February 1912, Page 7
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119EXHIBITION PICTURES. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14925, 24 February 1912, Page 7
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