PLENTY OF SPECIMENS.
Sir,—ln your issue of this morning,': under tho above heading, is an account of an ' interview o.f one of your representatives with Mr., Hamilton, Director of tho Dominion Museum, in connection with a letter of Mr.; James 0. Walter's, complaining of not being able to see a herbarium set of native plants, so a 8 to enable him to namo some living specimens he was taking to England. Mr. W-altors's complaint was a direct one, "thai; ho could hot sec a collection of herbarium specimens." _ This complaint is not met by Mr. Hamilton. Mi-. Hamilton states that there are largo collections of herbarium speoimens of native plants in tho Dominion Museum, but goes on to say that they are not accossible, for certain reasons. Therefore Mr. Walters's.complaint was a just olio. lam not blaming Mr. Hamilton. It is the Minister in charge who is to blame in not insisting upon stops being taken to have a proper building erected, in order to show the oxhibits that are now contained in what may bo termed a building of "shreds and patches," where "confusion reigns worse confounded," and where "rust and moth doth corrupt," I am afraid the dry rot known to be in the museum lias gono across to Parliament. If tho money that has been so grievously wasted in Royal Commissions, such'as. the tirabor one, the-Na-tive lands one, and in giving excessive prices for pieces of land at Nainai, and to make an approach to tho new Government House, had - boon spont on- the museum, a building worthy of tho Dominion could have been erected. lam informed Mr. Walters was shown tho illustrations of New Zenlnnd plants is-
sued by the Education Department to tlio public schools. Those are about as much , practical uso as the theory of "partial impact," to the author oi' which a liberal Government contributed £300. AVould it bo possiblo to convert the now Government House into a museum. Perhaps tlio Ministry had tliat end in view.—l. am, 1 otc., NO SPECIMENS ON VIEW.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 954, 22 October 1910, Page 10
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341PLENTY OF SPECIMENS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 954, 22 October 1910, Page 10
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