Destructive

Sir,—Re the exhibition of Wellington Art currently showing, it may be difficult to be both adequate and original when opening an exhibition, but Professor Page, in adhering to that modish cliche, "destruction of the mass." succeeds only in destroying its primary function.

More destructive still was his implication designed to flatter into acceptance of this, his judgment, by inclusion into a group of chosen few, doubtless gratefully endowed with those distinguishing qualities—that extra something.