TWO AUCKLANDS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23191, 10 November 1938, Page 15

TWO AUCKLANDS

CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS PHOTOGRAPHS EXCHANGED DOMINION'S URGENT NEED [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT] LONDON, Oct. 20 Photographs of Auckland and Bishop Auckland, Durham, were exchanged when a visit to the English city was paid by Mr. W. J. Jordan, the High Commissioner, and Mrs. .Jordan. The idea originated when Dr. Hugh Dalton, M.P„, visited New Zealand last year. Sir Ernest Davis, Mayor of Auckland,, suggested an exchange of photographs as a mark of Empire co-opera-tion and as a memento of the close

relationships between the two cities. A framed and autographed aerial photograph of Auckland was handed to the Mayor of Bishop Auckland by Dr. Dalton, and Mr. Jordan was presented with a view of Auckland Castle gates for presentation to the Mayor and Corporation of Auckland.

The Mayor of Bishop Auckland said that there were definite links oetween the two cities. A number of people from Bishop Auckland had gone to Auckland. They had settled happily and had done well and many of the street names revived memories of the home town. The Council would treasure this picture and, to indicate how much value they placed upon it, he asked Mr. Jordan to inform the people of Auckland that Bishop Auckland was spending £oOO() on a new council chamber, in which the picture would be hung. In reply, Mr. Jordan spoke of municipal matters in New Zealand. The Dominion, he said, was in urgent need of British working people—the country was crying out for them. Wages were good, an average of £5 12s 6d for a 40-hour week for carpenters, yet someone who had tried to get some of these workers to leave this country for Mew Zealand had been unsuccessful.

"New Zealand," lie continued, "wants ordinary working people, and we hope that many more will come out from this country to continue the good work which was done by the early settlers."

The Mayor, Sir Ernest Davis, said yesterday that he bad not yet received any advice of the forwarding of the Bhotograph of Auckland Castle gates, e would be very happy to receive it when it came and he would see that it was hunc in-- an appropriate place in the Auckland Town Hall.

DOMINION ARTISTS MISS G. NELSON'S WORK MURAL BY MR. JOHN HUTTON DESIGN FOR COAT OF ARMS [from our own correspondent] LONDON, Oct. !20 Two New Zealand artists whose work was on view this week in London were Miss Gwen Nelson, of Hastings, and Mr. John Hutton, of Wanganui. Miss Nelson - gave an exhibition of. her oil paintings and water colours, and Mr. Hutton was responsible for a mural painting executed especially for the opening of the Stafford Gallery, St. James' Place.

Miss Nelson had 48 paintings to show. Their titles were an eloquent comment on her travels. They ranged from "Hyde Park, Sydney," to "Evening, New Zealand," and subjects were drawn from Reigate, Berkshire, Guildford, Old Chiswick, Dorset, Cornwall, Portsmouth, Land's End, Hants, and the Cotswolds.

Mr. Hutton'ls mural, painted for the opening of the Stafford Gallery, was carried out during the course of the recent crisis. The artist has tried to symbolise some of the peace and detachment of man in his closest association with the earth, sky and sea, which at that particular time seemed so remote. The subject matter comes from a holiday on the north French coast.

The artist confines his efforts nowadays chiefly to mural work. He believes that mural painting is a special branch of art requiring the cultivation of a point of view rather different from that of easel painting. He aims to keep a sense of wall space and relationship to the architecture as one of the primary considerations. One of his most important commissions recently was to submit a new design for the coat of arms to be used on the Boyal train, now being redecorated under the charge of Mr. Brian O'Borke, of Christchurch. The design has been submitted and has .yet to receive Boyal approval. Murals at the Stafford Gallery are to bo changed every six months. To Mr. Hutton fell the honour of painting the first. He will keep photographs of this particular design, which, in due course, will be painted over by another mural artist.

In the opening exhibition, an oil painted by Mrs. Hutton, the daughter of Mr. Justice Blair, was also luing. Eler subject was a set of fishing nets on the shore of Northern France.

MILLIONAIRE CRICKETER VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND SIR JULIEN CAHN'S PLANS f KKOM OUR OWN CORKESPONDKNT] LONDON, Oct. 20 As lie will not arrive in Auckland until February 17, the day before the third match begins at Wanganui, Sir Jnlien Cnlin will be unable to see his cricket team play in the first two matches of their forthcoming tour of New Zealand. The millionaire-cricketer is so keen to pla v in this match, however, that be lias* arranged to fly from Auckland to Wanganui as soon as possible after his arrival. It is likely that Lady Cahn will accompany him on the flight. The majority of, the members of the team are to leave London for .New Zealand by the Rangitiki in January.

DOG-BOX CRASHES TWO MEN FALL 100 FEET I'from our own correspondent] SYDNEY, Nov. 5 Two men, who were working on a f.jtv building, crashed 100 feet to the croiind in a wooden dog-box, one of them dying early the next rnormng. The men, Bert Fitzsimons, aged 36, and Laurie McKay, aged 27, ware working ' iri the box. which was susnerided at the top of the building. The |)OX' struck the ground with soch force thai it was smashed to pieces. Other workmen on the building rushed to the aid of Fitzsimons and McKay and were amazed, that they had not been killed outright.