CHURCHILL AUCTIONS

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 28, 28 October 1942, Page 8

CHURCHILL AUCTIONS

Culture Of New Zealand’s Pioneers The Churchill Auctions at present being conducted in NeW Zealand, and more particularly the Churchill book, were symbols of real importance, said Air. O. N. Gillespie, addressing the Weliugton Rotary Club yesterday. ■ First, he said, they formed a refutation of the monotonous charge that the Allies were plutocracies, caring nothing for culture but only for money. Millions of young.men .had been, deluded, with this story; yet, here to this faraway part of the Empire, their forbears had brought with them cultural treasures of great richness. The auctions, too, had shown the eagerness of the people of New Zealand to help the patriotic funds; hundreds of instances, some of. them almost pathetic, occurred where people surrendered books, manuscripts, and other articles that had been treasured for years, some of them brought;. ...put by pioneers when they first came here. Sir Winston: Churchill’s book, written two centuries and a lialf mgo,' was a reminder that writing ran in families. The towering strength of Winston Churchill as the British war leader should not make one forget that he had filled.a bookshelf with remarkable books, of a range that covered a fascinating novel. "Savrola," and the monumental biography of his ancestor Marlborough.