Speeches, Leo Bestall
Maker
Bestall (MBE) Leonard Delabere
The New Zealand Shipping Company Limited
Production date
Circa 1950
Current rights
All Rights Reserved
Object detail
Brief Description
Travel talk speech and notes by Leo Bestall. Two sets of speech notes written on New Zealand Shipping Company note paper. Undated and untitled.
a) Speech detailing Leo and Mary Bestall's trip to England and Europe. This speech is most likely to have been to a Rotary audience as Bestall makes a special mention of meetings he attended while in England. Includes mentions of food, the cost of living, tipping, motoring, jobs, museum related activities, including purchasing items for the collection with the £500 bequest from Miss Burden, and attending English Museum Association and International Council of Museums conferences.
Details the tourist highlights of the trip and his general impressions of each country they visited. Bestall also mentions his and his wife's intention to try and bring two German girls that they met in Dusseldorf to New Zealand and outlines the post-war situation in Germany. Closes the speech by talking about English pubs.
b) Set of notes related to another trip by Leo and Mary Bestall to Bangkok, Egypt, Europe and England. The main objective was to attend two conferences and purchase items for the museum collection. Speech most likely delivered to the Napier Society of Art and Crafts because he spends a significant portion of the speech detailing the purchases he made on their behalf and the difficulties involved.
c) Speech notes entitled: Art Gallery, January 1931 and: Rotary Hastings, 6 February 1951. Extra points are handwritten toward the bottom of the page.
a) Speech detailing Leo and Mary Bestall's trip to England and Europe. This speech is most likely to have been to a Rotary audience as Bestall makes a special mention of meetings he attended while in England. Includes mentions of food, the cost of living, tipping, motoring, jobs, museum related activities, including purchasing items for the collection with the £500 bequest from Miss Burden, and attending English Museum Association and International Council of Museums conferences.
Details the tourist highlights of the trip and his general impressions of each country they visited. Bestall also mentions his and his wife's intention to try and bring two German girls that they met in Dusseldorf to New Zealand and outlines the post-war situation in Germany. Closes the speech by talking about English pubs.
b) Set of notes related to another trip by Leo and Mary Bestall to Bangkok, Egypt, Europe and England. The main objective was to attend two conferences and purchase items for the museum collection. Speech most likely delivered to the Napier Society of Art and Crafts because he spends a significant portion of the speech detailing the purchases he made on their behalf and the difficulties involved.
c) Speech notes entitled: Art Gallery, January 1931 and: Rotary Hastings, 6 February 1951. Extra points are handwritten toward the bottom of the page.
Collection
Production date
Circa 1950
Production place
Production period
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Coloured and black ink and pencil on paper.
Media/Materials
Measurements
Height x Width: 130 x 206mm
Height x Width: 206 x 130mm
Height x Width: 210 x 180mm
Height x Width: 206 x 130mm
Height x Width: 210 x 180mm
Classification terms
Subject person
Subject period
Subject date
1951
Current rights
All Rights Reserved
Credit line
from the Leo Bestall Collection
Other number(s)
37370
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