WELLINGTON SOUTH MUSEUM

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2637, 7 December 1915, Page 3

WELLINGTON SOUTH MUSEUM

MORE OPEN DAYS. WANTED. A deputation consisting ■ of' Messrs. J.- Crewe-s, D. Campbell, J: Castle, and T. Fathers,'representing the Wellington Zoological Society,' the Wellington South Progressiva Society, and the Newtown School Committee,'waited 'on' the Libraries Committee ofthe City Council yesterday afternoon, in connection with the Wellington South -Museum. It was pointed out that the museum and the public were suffering owing to the fact that the museum was only opened for a couple of hours on three days of the week, and that often people went to visit the place only, to find.' it closed. The deputation urged that it should be opened on every day of the week, Mondays excepted, in order that it can serve the educational purpose'for which it was established. It was further urged that the natural history specimens should bo classified in their respective families instead of being arranged haphazardly as at present, and also that the inore valuable animals which happened to dio in the Zoo should be preserved as" specimens of their genus for the museum. The fact that ; Wellington South is about to be connected up with the eastern suburbs; by tramway will, it is confidently expected, give a fillip to the progress of Wellington South, and the museum would, in consequence, servers an educator to a much larger population than heretofore. The committee, through its chairman (Mr. R. A. Wright) promised to give careful consideration to the deputation's representations.