PORTRAITS OF NELSON.
PRESENTATION TO CITY COUNCIL. Immediately after the minutes had been confirmed at The City Council meeting last week the Mayor (Mr W. D. Stewart) announced that there was present a deputation from the Navy League anxious to present to the council two framed portraits of Lord Nelson. It was proposed to hang one of those in the council chamber and the other in tho Public Library. It was decided to receive the' deputation, which consisted of Messrs J. A. Johnstone, G. B. Bullock,-W. J. Morrell, J. F. VV’oodhouse, J. W. Smith, R. S. Black, C. Darling, and G. R. Ritchie. Mr Johnstone, tho opening speaker, explained that in the absence in Wellington on parliamentary duty of tho president of the Otago Branch of the Navy League (tho Hon. James Allen), it had fallen to him to aek his Worship and tho members of the council to _ accept two copies of Abbot’s famous painting of Horatio Lord Nelson, tho one to adorn the walla of tho council chamber, and tho other tho walls of tho Free Library. Mr Darling also said a few words, and tho Mayor, on behalf of the councillors, received the portrait, and suitably acknowledged the gift.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3112, 5 November 1913, Page 3
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