LIBRARY BUSTS AND PICTURES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1057, 21 February 1911, Page 4

LIBRARY BUSTS AND PICTURES.

OF PUBLIC MEN.- .:'.' There is gradually being brought together at tho Parliament Library a collection of portraits and busts of men connected with New Zealand history. The library already contains marble busts of tho late Sir Harry Atkinson, Sir John Mackenzie, and Sir. Scddou, and bronzed plaster busts of Sir John Hall and Sir George Grey, in addition to several oil portraits, which include ■ Sir Julius Vogel, Sir George Grey, Mr. Dallanco, and Mr. h'eilrton, and portrait shields representing past Parliaments dating back to the commencement of responsible government. An interesting addition to the collection has recently been' made in tho shape of three miniature portraits, which were purchased on behalf of the Government by the High Commissioner, and presented to the librury. These are a portrait in his military uniform of Lieutenant-Colonel George Grey (Sir George Grev's father), of Sir George's mother, and of Sir George himself, when ft yoihig man of twenty-two. The miniatures aro to be reframed' in a uniform style, and placed in a conspicuous place on the walls of the Main Reading Room, . •