DONATED TO N.Z

Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1933, Page 4

DONATED TO N.Z

FAMOUS PAINTING “CARILLON” HEROIC SACRIFICE SYMBOLISED (Per Press Association —Copyright.) WELLINGTON, October 30. At a meeting of Board of Trustees of the National. Art Gallery and the Dominion Museum to-day, the Prime Minister, who presided, announced that a cablegram had been received from the High Commissioner at Loudon, intimating that . Lord Wakefield, of Hythe, has purchased Captain Longstaff’s famous painting. “Carillon, symbolising. New Zealand’s heroic sacrifice in the Great War. It is - ■ a magnificient picture, and Lord Wakefield has requested the Prime Minister to accept the same on behalf of the people of New Zealand. The Prime -Minister stated that he was despatching a reply, asking the High Commissioner to convey th© fol-.-, lowing message to Lord Wakefield: “The High Commissioner for New Zealand has informed me of your generous presentation of Captain Longstaff’s famous painting, “Carillon,” symbolising New Zealand’s sacrifice in the Great War. On behalf of the Government and the people of New Zealand, I have very great pleasure in accepting the painting ahd desire ‘to express td yotl v fjtir deep appreciation of your magnificent gift, which con* stitutes a further practical evidence of your Lordship’s continued' interest in this, Tljfomimpn, The picfiuire.wi|!fl| 'be hung in our new National Art Gallery, which building is now in the course of erection, and will form a most appropriate and valuable edition .... to the. works of art to be* housed therein.”