“CARILLON.”
Painting Presented to New Wellington Gallery. PRAISE FOR ARTIST. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received February 16, 2.45 p.m ) LONDON, February 15. Sir James Parr, New Zealand High Commissioner, at a large gathering at New Zealand House, described Will Longstaff as Australia’s greatest artist when accepting a painting entitled “ Carillon ”, the gift of Lord Wakefield, and destined for Wellington’s New Gallery. It depicts battle-clad soldier ghosts listening on a moonlit foreign shore to a faint-hearted bell, and saying, “ New Zealand does not forget.” Lord Wakefield said that, though inter-Empire trade formed one of the chief means of expressing kinsmanlike sentiments, the spirit of sacrifice and brotherhood which Longstaff had recorded was an enduring bond between the British nations.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20232, 16 February 1934, Page 7
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