GIFTS TO MUSEUM.
To his previously valuable collection of Chinese antique® given to the Auckland War Memorial Museum, Captain W. F. Collins, of Southern Rhodesia, has now made further gifts of a lead figure arid bronze 'silhouettes of the Hari period, which ranges from 200 B.C. to 200 A.D., and a set of lead sleeve weights of the Tang period, about 800 A.D. Mr. J. D. Twentyman, of Mangere, has given a bittern, and Mr. C. A. Fleming, of Remuera, a grey-headed mollyhawk, a giant petrel, and a eooty shearwater petrel. Specimens of native lizard* have come to hand from Mr, R. L. Darley, of Paeroa, and Mr. A. K. Lamb, of Parua Bay. Among ethnographical gifts are a eet of shell adze* and fishhooks from Maupiti Island, in the Cook group, and a kava bowl and clubs from the Solomon Islands from Mr. A. J. Finlay, of Grey Lynn.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 216, 11 September 1940, Page 9
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150GIFTS TO MUSEUM. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 216, 11 September 1940, Page 9
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