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SOCIETY’S HELP FORABORIGINAL ARTISTParramatta and district artists will help members of Ryde Municipal Art Society to sponsor a 17 year old aboriginal boy for art training at Sydney Technical College.boy, Maynard Ban-llves in the Mitchell Gulf area, where he been trained on a mis-i station.Dora Toovey, a member of the society, is en thusiastic about the boy's artistic talents, and members of the society have agreedtheto establish a fund for boy's training.Members of .the society believe that this is the first time an art society has undertaken sponsorship of an aboriginal artist in this way.Donations for the Maynard Bannister’s training be forwarded to the5L WicU(Secuitij.onsociety or left during the exhibition next Mayor of Ryde E. L. S. Hall opened the first award exhibition of the society in No. 2 Town Hall, Ryde at 8 pjn. on Friday, November 24.Ryde Municipal Council donated four prizes of £50 for traditional and modern sections.The exhibition will continue until Thursday, November 30, and will be open from 9-5 p.m. daily, and from 7-10 pjn. each evening.CoimdispOld coin stomp on disp! old Council have attract* erable inteiThis displa;will close on K It is being j Parramatta Phi ety, in conjunct Australian N u Society, the P.I ment, the Cc Bank, and lea« collectors.Parramatta I Society is cono the auspices o; Council.Ventura clubCl A k. Cil * U/rMTlAIAnTUUII ■
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Parramatta Cumberland Argus

Parramatta, New South Wales, AU

Wed, Nov 29, 1961

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