COMING EVENTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 December 1939, Page 10

COMING EVENTS

SPECIAL EVENTS AT EXHIBITION. MODELS, PHOTOGRAPHY, ART. The considerable attention paid to the model engineering exhibit at the Exhibition is an encouraging sign for the other special exhibits which have been arranged and which will take place during the run of the Exhibition. The model engineering display, because of many special requests, will be continued for nine extra days in another part of the Exhibition, the change being necessary because on December 18 the New Zealand Model Aeroplane Association commence competitions for workmanship and flying. The model aeroplane contests will take place from December 18 to January 20, 1940, and already the response they have had has been most gratifying. On December 27 and 28 the flying contests will be held for Spar models handlaunched, Fuselage models rising off the ground and any type of model rising off water. SALON OF PHOTOGRAPHY. On January 31, the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition International Salon of Photography will open and will continue to February 28. Entries have been invited from all parts of the world and a strong New Zealand re-f presentation is anticipated. There are three sections in the salonpictorial prints, natural history and scientific prints, and commercial press and coloured prints. SKETCH CLUB EXHIBIT. Following the International Salon of Photography, an exhibition of work by members of the Wellington Sketch Club will be held from March 9 to April’6. This exhibition will include pictures for water-colour, oils, pastels and other mediums, and it is anticipated that cutside representation from Auckland, Masterton, Christchurch and Dunedin will be included. The final selection of pictures will probably number somewhere about 200 and from this an interesting aspect of amateur art in New Zealand will be available. The artists who will be represented are all young amateurs whose hobby in painting and drawing takes second place to their usual occupation. Some of the names of the artists are already well-known, but for quite a number it will be the first opportunity they will have to exhibit their work. The interest of .this exhibit will lie not only in its artistic merit, but in its illustration in the work of a body which is endeavouring to foster art in New Zealand.