The Eddris Corner

In this issue we take pleasure in presenting a series of photographs featuring the newly-opened Gisborne Art Gallery and Museum. There can be no question that this occasion is one of the most notable in the history of Gisborne and its district.

The art gallery, in the fortnight it has been open, has already served to focus the attention of at least two thousand people on the works and talents of Gisborne's gifted artists, and in the years ahead it cannot fail to play an important part in the nurture and blossoming of this most desirable cultural skill.

The museum, presenting as it does a wealth of material associated with the past, will inevitably grow in value with the passing years. No town or district, and especially no town or district as rich in historical associations as Gisborne and Poverty Bay, can afford to go on indefinitely allowing its treasures to suffer loss or dispersal for lack of a public home in which they can be collected and properly maintained. If there is any element of surprise in the establishment of a local museum, it can be only that it has not been established before. Thanks to the generosity and unselfish work of a small band of enthusiasts, this want has now been filled, and the people of Gisborne, and especially the young people, will be very much the richer for what has been so splendidly accomplished at "Kelvin Rise".

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