The question of lavatories Chinese tenement houses was dis- cussed at yesterday's meeting of the Sanitary Board.
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Tragic Weeks Twenty Years Ago," the continuation of a series of articles recording the events in those dark days immediately pre- ceding the World War, again ap- pears in this issue.
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Cheers were raised as the royal | on car left Holyroodhouse with their
by Sir Godfrey Collins, Msbell Countess of Airlie, the Earl of Dun- more, V.C, Lieutenant-Colonel Re- ginald Seymour, and Major the Honourable" Richard Molyneux.
Portrait of the Premier
Both the King and the Queen were greatly interested in many of the exhibits. A picture which drew forth comments was the La- very portrait of Mr Ramsay Mac- Donald. Both the King and the Queen were delighted to and on exhibition the portrait of Mabell Countess of Airlie by Philip de Laszlo... M.V.O.. presented to the Academy last year.
At the time the Countess ✩was Inspecting other pictures, and was summoned by their Majesties to join them in front of her own port
alt, which they regarded as ex-
cellent.
During the half-hour in which exhibition the crowd outside in- the King and Queen were in the creased greatly, and loud cheering
and walked towards the National arose as their Majesties emerged
Gallery.
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Masterpieces Admired
lery the King and Queen were re
On entering the National, Gal-
yet been discussed here.
ceived by the Honourable Str Rew Concerning the repeated report | Hamilton Dalrymple, K.C.V.O., that Mr. Sun For President of the chairman of the Board of Trustees; Legislative Yuan, will visit Canton Mr Stanley Cursiter, director of after his present sojourn in Hono- the gallery; and Mr A. E. Haswell lulu, Mr. Hsiao said he had no in- Miller, keeper of the gallery. formation about his coming. He Many of the masterpieces of Bri.. does not know whether Mr. Sun tish and Continental schools of would come here at all.
painting greatly interested the ro- Asked what is the altitude of yal visitors. One was "The New the South-west towards the com- Court of Apollo." by Perugino ing Kuling conference which i
which was formerly owned by General Chlang called by
Kai Lord Carmichael, the first chair-
man. of the Board of Trustees.. Shek, Mr. Hsiao said he has no Information about the agenda of The Queen was greatly interest- the conference. With respect to ed in part of an alter plece by Paul the recent Sino-Japanese parley, Veronese, other parts of which are Mr. Hsiao said that the members in the Art Gallery at Dulwich and of the Council have endorsed the the National Gallery of Canada. views of Mr. Hu Han Mn, who in A photograph of a reconstruction sisted that the Tangku armistice of the original, alter piece was contains political commitments de-shown to the Queen, who studied trimental to the interest of China, | it closely.
This view is shared by all the leaders in Canton, and therefore It is not necessary for them to express further opinion, Mr. Hsiao concluded.
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Presented by the King
The Rembrandt and the pictures by Vandyck and Franz Halls in the Central Gallery proved decided at tractions for both the King and the Queen.
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