NEW ZEALAND LIFE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26621, 18 November 1947, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND LIFE

AMERICAN INTEREST FILMS TO BE MADE Special Correspondent WELLINGTON, Nov. 17. Films of New Zealand life and environment will be part of a Pacific survey now being undertaken by Ur R. Cushman Murphy, curator of the department of birds, of the American Museum of Natural History, who is now visiting New Zealand. Dr Murphy said in an interview that these films of New Zealand and the Pacific Islands would be shown at the museum to more than 2,000,000 children a year. Part of Dr Murphy’s project will be the display of a fully reconstructed moa standing in the setting of its own era. There will also be exhibits from thp Snares Islands, which Dr Murphy will visit in company with a New Zealand expedition shortly. "We know too little about New Zealand and the vast scope there is in your country,” said Dr Murphy. “Every intelligent American knows you through your war effort, hut we want to show the American children your country in a more detailed way.” A great deal of scientific interest in New Zealand would be created by a representation of New Zealand as the country was before the invasion by man. His project would enable the American student to see the pattern of natural history in New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.