PM Transcripts

Transcripts from the Prime Ministers of Australia

Gorton, John

Period of Service: 10/01/1968 - 10/03/1971
Release Date:
18/01/1968
Release Type:
Media Release
Transcript ID:
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Document:
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  • Gorton, John Grey
FOR PRESS: CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE FOR NEW ZEALAND - STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER, SENATOR JOHN GORTON.

FOR PRESS: P. M. No. 11/ 1968
CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE FOR Nl,; W-ZEALAND
Statement by the Prime Minister, Senator John Gorton
An exhibition of contemporary Australian sculpture
is being sent to New Zealand to represent Australia at the
Christchurch Pan-Pacific Festival commencing next March, and
then to be shown in public art galleries in Auckland, Wellington
and Dunedin. The Commonwealth Art Advisory Board has arranged for
the sculptures to be assembled in the Albert Hall, Canberra,
and the final selection is being made by the Commonwealth Art
Advisory Board today ( 18th). The exhibition will then be open
to the public from tomorrow until 24th January.
The exhibition is the first comprehensive Australian
sculpture to be sent overseas and also the first which has had
an initial showing in Canberra, It will not be seen elsewhere
in Australia.
CANBERRA 18th January, 1968.

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