A PORTRAIT GALLERY.
A prominent feature of certain portions of the Parliamentary Buildings is the number of pictures and photographs of the late Mr Seddon.
When the Estimates were under consideration in the House on Fricay Mr Fisher,.referring to votes relating; to the late Mr Seddon (portraits, busts and so on), urged that they should be all put together, and that the Government should commemorate the deceased's memory in a proper manner, instead of frittering away money on all sorts of objects. The Leader of the Opposition asked whether the £lO5 item was for the picture of Mr Seddon in the Whips' room. The Premier said he thought the £lO5 was for the. picture in the lobby.
Mr Wilford remarked that someone had put a walking-stick through the picture of Mr Seddon in the Whips' room, and the Government would probably be called upon to pay damages. Mr Lewis said the place was swarming with pictures of Mr Seddon, some of which were a disgrace to photography. Why not, he asked, select a" good one, and keep that only?
The Premier said that the Government had only purchased one portrait, and that was in the lobby. Then the House passed on to other business.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8514, 20 August 1907, Page 5
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204A PORTRAIT GALLERY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8514, 20 August 1907, Page 5
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