ART GALLERIES
COMPARISONS IN REPORT NEW ZEALAND ENTERPRISE LONDON, Jan. II According to a report by the British! Museums' Association on Australian and New Zealand art galleries, on which the Carnegie Corporation of New York ■will base its allotment of grants, tha Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide .collections rival those of other cities of the world, except the largest. The report says the Wanganui art gallery is better equipped than those in Bendigo, Townsville, Rockhampton* Toowoomba and Ipswich, and comparer favourably with Brisbane and Perth. The majority of the Australian towns, apart from Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, compare poorly with similar towns in England, South Africa and New Zealand.
Owing to the supine indifference of the majority of the civio authorities & single large Londori or American museum has an income six-fold larger than all those in Australia. England and America spend 8d per head per annum on museums; New Zealand spends 3sd, and Australia only 2}d.
New Zealand's general standard is high, but can be improved. ' A meeting of Australian and New: Zealand museum curators in Melbourne would be invaluable in securing cooperation and breaking down isolation*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21698, 13 January 1934, Page 11
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186ART GALLERIES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21698, 13 January 1934, Page 11
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