A GEEAT WAR PICTURE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3113, 18 June 1917, Page 3

A GEEAT WAR PICTURE

OPENING EXHIBITION AT TOWN'HALIi TO-NIGHT. Widespread public interest hnti been arouseu by the announcement mat the lirat oi tlio British official war llinin which lire boiiifc- sum out to the ifcw Zealand Governuiuit will -bo shown iu the Town Hull, commencing to-nighi. The Oovernmuui hiis entered iuto an arrangement with tn« Y..\i.O.A. to display the picture) riKlit throughout the Dominion for the beiienl of our soldiers through several of the well-recoßnisect channels, anil at tho opening eshioilion this evening tho public, will have the lirat opportunity afiorded them in ftcw Zealand oC secin- it. Their Excellencies the Governor and tho Countess ot Liverpool have coueciucd to n<: nrt'SKiii to-night, 'and the Mayor of Wellington, Mr. J. I'. Luke, 0.M.d., will occupy the i:Jiair. The Minister of .Internal Affairs (Hip Hon. G. W. Hiissoll) will give a, brief address, ami the. city organist Udr. Bernard Page) has agreed to play selections ou the organ, commencing from 7.30. A special orchestra, has been arranged, ami a solo is to bo contributed t>- Mr- Phipns. Tho subject of thn bip picture, which is some. 5000 font iu length, 1 B the "Battle of the Ancre." which took place laat, September, and by no means the. least, interestins feature in it is tho ceotiou which illustrates for this first, time tho ndvaucc of the tanks which struck Buch terror Into the Germans and helped to save so many British lives. The whole picture is said to present the most comprehensive, reliable, and realistic record or the war that has yet appeared in this country, \ , f P r , that reas on alone crowded houses shonld be assured here and wberevor the Dictnre goes. .