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THE SITE WHERE THE FEDERAL CAPITAL IS TO BE BUILT. 



The P'aderal Government invited Australian artists to submit paintings o( 

 Canberra. This was a happy idea, as the appearance of the spot from whence 

 in time to come Austraha will be governed will be speedily altered. It is 

 well to have a permanent record of what it looked like before the final choice 

 of our legislators selected it for the headquarters of government. The picture 

 chosen was the work of the well-known Sydney artist, Mr. Lister Lister, who 

 obviously took immense pains with the painting. It has been purchased for 

 ^^250. The second picture, reproduced below, was painted by Mr. Penley 

 Boyd, a young Melbourne artist of 23, who has evidently a future before him. 

 It has been purchased for ;^I50. The reproductions show that there is little 

 resemblance between the two paintings. The colouring, too, is entirely different, 

 and no one seeing them unlabelled would think they were of the same place. 

 The canvases are tube hung in the Federal Parliament House, when it is 

 built, at Canberra. 



