BRITISH PICTURES
LOAN COLLECTION ARRIVES VALUE OVER £40,000 The pictures comprising the loan exhibition of recent and contemporary British art, which is to be opened in the Art Gallery on Monday, arrived at Auckland yesterday and were placed in the gallery. Tho exhibition, which has been sent 011 a tour of the principal New Zealand and Australian public galleries by the Empire Art Loan Collections Society, consists of paintings, drawings and prints valued at, over £IO.OOO. After seasons of a month each at Duncdin and Ohristchurch, it was brought to Auckland from Lvttelton by the steamer AVingatui. The pictures travel in a single grey-painted container about 12ft. long and Bft. in height and width, provided with hooks for hoisting. It bears the name of an Anglo-French firm which does a largo specialised business in tho shipment of pictures between London and Paris. The container, one of the most valuable single packages ever landed at Auckland, was conveyed to the gallery on a horse-drawn lorry. The horses were taken away and the vehicle was left standing in Kitchener Street for an hour or more, while the gallery staff extracted the pictures one by one and carried them indoors.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21861, 25 July 1934, Page 12
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