NO BUTTERFLIES MISSING
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REPORTED THEFT FROM N.Z. MUSEUMS
By Telegrapn —
WELLINGTON, Feb. 18. - With reference to the London cable reporting the missing butterfly collections in Australian and New Zealand museums, Mr. W, J. Phillipps, of ihe Dominion Museum, stated that no butterflies had been reported missing from the Dominion Museum— or any other New Zealand museum. "If any coliepticns have been reported miss.ng, I am sure we would have been advised," he said. The caoie Sjated xhat detectives . recovered from a house in the Home Countie.j a collection of yare butterflies worth thousands of pounds, alleg 2dly missing from Australian and New Zealand museums,- and that Scotland Yard beneved it had solved one of its .-trangest cases after months of mquiry.
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Chronicle (Levin), 18 February 1947, Page 4
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123NO BUTTERFLIES MISSING Chronicle (Levin), 18 February 1947, Page 4
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