JAPANESE FRIENDSHIP
HISTORIC PAINTING AUSTRALIAN-N.Z. CONVOY
(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Every evidence of Japanese friendship was shown at a gathering held on the motor ship Canberra Maru when Captain K. Orihara invited Auckland citizens to view a painting of the Japanese Warship, Izuki and H.M.A.S. Melbourne conveying troop transports during the Great War. The painting, which was executed by Mr. I?. Arai, a leading Japanese artist for the Osaka Syosen Kaisha, was viewed in a space in one of the tween decks an c ( was bordered by large Australian and Japanese Hags. Painted in oils the scene portrayed the first Australian and New Zealand convoy in the vicinity of Cocbs Islands in the Indian Ocean at the time when the, German raider Emden was located. On the return to Sydney this month of the Canberra Maru, the painting will be presented to the Melbourne National Gallery by the Osaka Syosen Kaisya, through the Australian-Japan Society.
WOMAN’S PRIVILEGE
LONDON, July 20. Miss Florence White, leader of 150,000 British spinsters campaigning for pensions at 55, lias just had a birthday. She admitted she was over 17, but declined to say how much.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20032, 2 September 1939, Page 16
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192JAPANESE FRIENDSHIP Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20032, 2 September 1939, Page 16
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