ENRICH THE TOWN HALL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1686, 28 February 1913, Page 4

ENRICH THE TOWN HALL.

WITH OIL PAINTINGS. Both tlie City Council Chamber and the Mayor's room in the Town Hall boast a numliiil' of oil paintings, .which servo to- lend dignity and a touch of colour to the white-plastered oivie halls. Mr. D. M'Liiren, : ,as Mayor of the city, has a,i idea, tliati the Town Hall and Concert Chamber . would look all the'better ' if the dead whito of tho walls was-broken up with 1 a few good oi! paintings" which ho. believes .would tend lb enrich the appearance of'Jhe halls, i Thoy would have ; to-lie good in quality [and few in number, he concedes, and at the sajim time lie believes that the exhibition of the sanio would have its little effect in improving tho . .raste.in art and checking , the .gross vandalism which goes'on in people/scribbling, with pencils on the plastered walls.' Tho, mcii h(id jlust;,finished•'pr-intirtg over tho'' .Wmls '0.f,; the main entrance, hall , the - other.. when a' lot of writing was discovered. It is deplorahle'that the'efforts. ,of- the, authorities'to keep the place in perfect order should be checked by such ii stupid form of vandalisjn. .• .Mr. M'Laren thinks thnMho full-lciHh , life-size portrait of Mr.-Edward,telling- ; ham Wakefield should be him? in ■ tho "own * Hall. Irwas a .very fine, pipce of • , work, and the subject was oiw inlimMely l connected with the foundation "of J\Vf jinglon. > In the Council Chftniber it'-'nns lost to_ the general public, '.arid in 'all .probability the. Mayor will take steps to see. that, the painting (which badlv 'needsi ' restoring*?) ' is, transferred ' to' the : bic -i Town liall. , , . -■