ART GALLERY & MUSEUM

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 162, 27 July 1937, Page 4

ART GALLERY & MUSEUM

Many Acquisitions Tho annual exhibition of . the Hawlce's Bay Art Society, which concludod on Monday, was one of the most successful yet hcld from . the point of vie'w of attendanee, over 400 having visited the gallery. , A feature of tlie exhibition was the competition for posters held for the schools in Hawke's Bay. A large mraiber of entries wero sent in, ahd the standard reaelied Was the highest yet. For the rest of this. week all these posters have been placed on view hear the entrance. A special exhibition of needleworkj inclfiding some rcmarkable antiques, lias bedn thrown open to the piiblic aud all are iuvited to visit the Art Gallery during the next fortnight. .The Hawke 's Bay Mufeeum, Napier, aclinowledges the following aeqfiisitio.ns: — Mr. Nimbio, Havelock North, barbed bone point of bird spear from Oceai Beach ; Mrs. (Bisliop) Williams, Austrdlian secd-pods; Mrs Archcr Absolom, copper token; AI r. W. J. Bcnnet, plaited kauri gum; Mr. Buchanan, Hereworth School, sample of iguimbrite; per Ma 1-Iayter, stone coritaining inica; Mr. Maylett, copy of Egyptian A1 ail in ilve lunguages; Mrs. F. S. Dignan, Auckland, largo piece of bark cloth; Mr. C. F. F. Pollock, book "The Return of the Cutty Sark"; also English aword. Elr^, Ryc, Jubilco •uiedal, pair boar's

tusks, 2 stingray spinesj Mr. F. von Kettle, of&cer's map-case and map of Southern Palestinej Mrs. Hockley, greenstone pendant; Dr. A. C. Biggs, etching by Wyllie; Mr. A. K. Cotterill, old Napier photos; Mr. C. Williams, old Napier plioto and Aucldand tokenj Oia Bleach Linen Co., Belfast, flax- weaving exhibitj Mts. Burgin, greenstone mere; Mr. W. H. Connor, regimental buttons, etc., dug up on Hospital Hill; Mr, F. Hutchinson, New Zealand land fehells; Mr C. C. Smith, North American Ihamn spear-he^a and Maori stone chifeel; Mr. M&idens, Taradale, Maori Ax6-head; Mr. .Railey, Maori axe-head; Mrs. Loader, Taradale, foreign shells; Mr. Marton, William IV shilling; New Z^alhnd Government, Coronation medal George VI. Loan: Mr. Rolls, bayonet mounted as spear; Mrs. Perry, foUr large Maori inidges; Mr; C. F. H. Pollock, picture and facsiniile document.