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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1486, 8 July 1912, Page 9

Local art connoisseurs take exception, to at least one feature in tho Alfred Drury piece of statuary over the main entrance of tho now General Post Office. One of the two female figures carries in the bend of her arms a small model in bronze of a modern locomotive, and tho other cuddles the model of an ancient galleon (period about 1000 a.d.). This is pointed out as an incongruity—that to match the locomotivo tho vessel should be a modern liner in miniature. When a local artist was consulted yesterday afternoon, ho expressed the opinion that Mr. Drury's intention evidently was to show as well as possible in emblematic form tho progress which had been made in the means pf carrying tho mails, from the timo they w«re seaborno in such vessels as tho galleon depicted to tho present day, when so much depsndenco is placed on tho railways. Tho stylo followed in casting the emblems in bronze is by no means a new one, yet is not tho style most favoured by sculptors. Our informant states that the pices closely follows tho lines of much of Mr. Drury's other work—it is a familiar design, which would never be mistaken for the work of any other sculptor by thoso acquainted with tho work of the best men. As such it was a good example. Tho chief defect, if he could call it such, was tbc regrettable fact that tho Portland 'tone in which tho piece is sculptorcd is tho same tone or shade as the. Tonga Island stone of which the building is constructed. The general effect of tho statuary is. at present somewhat obscured by a cluster of electric light cables, suspended immediately before the group. '

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