LOAN COLLECTION
OF BRITISH MASTERS. OFFICIAL OPENING. There was a large gathering ot interested people at the Sarjeant Gallery on Saturday afternoon for the official opening of the exhibition of the Loan Collection of pictures from National and Tate Galleries, London. The Hon. D. G. Sullivan, Minister of Industries and Commerce, formally declared the exhibition, and speeches of welcome were given by Mr. J. B. Cotterill, M.P., the Mayor, (Mr. W. J. Rogers) and Mr. J. Siddells. Members of the Wanganui City Council and members of Sarjeant Gallery Advisory Committee were also present. Following the opening ceremony the visitors wandered through the various rooms to view the paintings.
Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Rogers, Mr. and Mrs. J. Siddells, Dr. H. D. Robertson, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. White, Mr. and Mrs. G Murch and Miss Murch, Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Denniston, Mrs. F. Gilligan, Mr. and Mrs. J. Robertson, Mr and Mrs. J. J. Scott, Mr and Mrs Ballinger, Mr. and Mrs. Kitson, Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Lilliton, Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Taiboys, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. Hughes, Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Poynter, Mrs. Poynter sen., Mr. and Mrs. C. Pearce, Mr. and Mrs. S. Dixon, Mr. and Mrs. James Aitken, Mr. and Mrs. L. Benjamin, Mr. and Mrs Walter Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. W. Draflin, Mr. and Mrs. S. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Izard, Rev. L. H. Ker and Mrs. Ker, Mr. and Mrs. A. J Pritchard, Mr and Mrs. Rochfort, Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Austin, Mr. and Mrs. O. Holst, Mr. and Mrs. Vivian Smith, Mr. and Mrs. H. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. J. Craig (Wangaehu), Major and Mrs. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. F. Stokes, Mr. and Mrs. Walton, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Williams (Mrs. R. E. Seddon and Mr. T. L. Seddon (Feilding), Mrs. E. Anderson and Miss W. Anderson, Mrs. McNeil and Miss McNeill (New Plymouth), Mr. and Mrs. Garland Jones; Mesdames A. Douglass, J. A. Hair, J R. Franklin, Ivo Symes, D. Mason, Ashton, E. Ashton, S. Swan, L. C. Young, H. Beggs, T. L. Sperring, Martin (Napier), E. A. Williams, A. McPhail, E. A. Wotton, J. C. Wickham, L. Hogben, E. Gibbon, Duke (Dunedin), W. Ashwell, J. C. Small; Miss Cohen (Australia), Misses Baylev, Wylie (Fordell), Worgan, G. .Marchant, E. .Moore, Rev. A. C. McLean, Messrs. Wyley (Fordell), Von Haast,' St. George, 11. C. Jenkins, C. L. Duigan, G. S. Gordon, Hori Takarangi, W. Brown, Cranleigh C. Barton.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 265, 8 November 1937, Page 2
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