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MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES PA WELLINGTON, July 3. Delegates from New Zealand museums and art galleries to-day formed a Dominion organisation to be known as the Art Galleries and Museums Association of New Zealand. The objects are to raise the standard of service given by art galleries and museums in their spheres of art. science, education and cultural recreation, to increase and diffuse knowledge on all matters relating to art galleries and museums; to encourage helpful relations among art galleries and museums, their governing bodies and staffs, to provide means for improving the qualifications of curators and staffs and for ensuring for them adequate remuneration; to hold courses of instruction and examinations in curatorship; to issue diplomas or certificates'" The following officers were elected:— President, Dr W. R. B. Oliver; vicepresidents. Messrs. J Barr end G B°stall; chairman of council, Dr R. A. Falla; honorary secretary, Dr J. T. Salmon honorary treasurer, Mr W. T. Phillips, members of- council—Messrs G. P Hawkins and R. S. Duff, Drs G. Archey and H. D. Skinner, Colonel C. Brereton.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26504, 4 July 1947, Page 6
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