SAFETY OF PICTURES
WELLINGTON ART GALLERY (0.C.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday People who know the National Art Gallery in Wellington and its pictures would miss many familiar canvasses if they visited the gallery to-day. In some parts the walls have been denuded of their paintings, those of special value particularly, in view of what might happen in an enemy air-raid on the city. Among the pictures which were held hy the gallery for the time being were a number forwarded on loan to New Zealand by the trustees of the Tate Gallery, London. These are being safeguarded from possible damage as far as is humanly possible. Some of them have been placed in what is hoped will be safety in an inland town in the North Island, and others have been cased and stowed away underground in dry cellars.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24243, 8 April 1942, Page 4
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137SAFETY OF PICTURES New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24243, 8 April 1942, Page 4
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