THE CORONATION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 November 1939, Page 5

THE CORONATION

MR FRANK SALISBURY'S PICTURE. ARRIVING TN DECEMBER. fly Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received This Day. 10.55 a.m.) LONDON. November 20. The New Zealand High Commissioner, Mr W. J. Jordan, announced that approval had been given Frank Salisbury’s painting of the Coronation, which is al present being exhibited in New York, to be sent to New Zealand for the Wellington Centennial Art Exhibition, arriving in mid-De-c ember.

II is complained by members of the Forest mid Bird Protection Society that the gannet sanctuary at Cape Kidnappers is becoming more and more a tourist report rather than a place where the birds have a right to peace for nesting and rearing the new gen-

eration. A newspaper report mentions that “a special appeal is made to visitors not to disturb the birds unduly and arrangements have been made for several honorary rangers to be on duty as an added protection lor the Kidnapper colony.” The truth is that the bold headland has censed to be a sanctuary from lite gannets’ point of view. Some critics of the popular practice of legalised trespassing on the nesting ground believe that the instinct of self-preser-vation may induce the birds to seek another place, where profanation by human sightseers would not be so easy. If they did decide on such a course they would be only following the example of rooks and crows which will desert a rookery when it attracts too much attention from mankind.