GOVERNOR-GENERAL
GIFT OF PORTRAIT LORI) Ri TH ER FORD ( P»r !’;•«*<• Association ). WELLINGTON, Feb. 20. Lord Bledisloe, in the. course of valedictory addresses of Professor Speight, as president, of the Royal Society of New Zealand, ami Dr. Marshall, as president of the Philosophical Society of Wellington at a gathering of representatives of scientific so cietics in every part of the Doin'nion, said: “I. have offered to the Print-' Minister as < hairman of trustees uf the new National Art Gallery of New Zealand, ns a parting gift. Io lhe. nation, a portrait of Lord Rutherford, of Nelson, lhe Empire’s most distinguished scientist, painted by an eminent British artist, Oswald Birley, himself of New Zealand. Il is an exact replica by Birley himself of a portrait which he had made three years ago at the request of the Fellows of the Royal Society for presentation to the Royal Institution (London), where it, now hangs. 1 trust, the trustees of your National Art Gallery may deem this portrait of New ZealHl's greatest, son, to be worth'' of a place upon its walls.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 44, 21 February 1935, Page 6
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178GOVERNOR-GENERAL Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 44, 21 February 1935, Page 6
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