SKETCH EXHIBITION

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10275, 9 May 1919, Page 3

SKETCH EXHIBITION

The.closing days are announced of the exhibition - which .has. been, running . a successfulvcourse at .■ .the,.,,. Art, Galie.ry, Whitmore street. To-day and to-rnoirow are the final. opportunities for visiting this show of •: sketches, ’ which' 'surpasses in interest and quality ally previous exhibition- of the kind. To-morrow evening at 9 o’clock thoi-art union will be drawn in the presence of visitors to the Gallery. , . visiting hours ore from 10 a.m. to 5.30, p.jn.,« and- in the - evening from V.BO to 9:30 p’cfock. i Admission includes one «d ticket in the art uuion.

Mr Frederick Mansfield Coshead, .Customhouse agent" iat Dunedin, passed awuy. there, this week. Dorn .in Surrey, deceased was brought to Dunedin .when eleven' years of age, the family coming out by the ship: Palmyra in ,18dS. Colonel D. J. ■ McGav.n, C.M.U., D. 5.0., who returned from tho front by the'Kemucra on Tuesday to take up'tho position of ; Director-General oi Medical Services, in succession to. Sur-geon-General a s: F. Henderson, has arrived ‘ in ' Wellington -An I old resident of Southland, •Mr Thomas 1 Lochhead, died a few days ago, in eightieth year. Mr Lochhead was a native of Airdrie (near Glasgow),-and came to New Zealand in the-ship Nelson‘in .1862. He was attracted to this country primarily by tho lure of the goldfields. After a few years .spent-, in the search for the precions; metal on Otago fields he followed firmihg‘pursuit's. Among the' passengers who arrived at Auckland on Tuesday by tho Make ra-was Major Keith D. P. Murray, M.C.,.0f- the Royal-Air Force.- ''Major Slhfray, who is a stepson of the late Dr 1).;Q.-, W., McDowell, is an old pupil of Icing’s College, Auckland. Ho left New .Zealand in March, 1915, and after qualifying in the Royal Flying School, began active air’service bn the Western front toward -the - end- of August, 1915.' :' - :-">■!