OUR WAR MUSEUM.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 288, 29 June 1917, Page 1 (Supplement)

OUR WAR MUSEUM.

UNOFFICIAL, A national war museum has been sanctioned by the Government. EXTRACTS FROM CATALOGUE. Gallery 2.—Effigies and Waxwork Figures. 1. Munitioneer and his family in triumphal car (40-h.p. Rolls-Royce)! 2. "Father carves the potato." Domestic Sunday dinner scene (1917). 3. A cock-general (period 1917). Costume by Flaine, Bond-street. Furs by tho Elite Fur Company. 4. City scene, 1915: "The Stock Exchange burns George Washington in effigy for telling the truth." Gallery 3 —Relics and Curios. 1. Electric torch used by people in 1917 to find their houses. 2. Powder-box and puff. Property of railway servant (circa 1916-17.) 3. Fragment r.f sole leather of civilians!' lioots ( 917). Fragile. Please do not touoh.

4. Pyjamas, sleeping hag, reading glas-x's, and picnic basket used by suburban season-ticket holders in 1917.

5. Models of icicles found in railway carriages alter passing of the Russian troops through England (August 1914). 6. Nine piece* of lump sugar, loaned to the museum by Solomon Goldberg, Esq., taken in pledge by his grandfatiier in 1917. 7. Specimens of "carbo-hydrate) and "calories," delicacies of new unknown nature eaten in lieu of food by patriots in war-time.

8. Letter posted London, November 1916, to a village in Sussex, .with postmarks of December 1916, January, Marc,h, and April 1917 Delivered April 21.

9. Ritual bell, used in smokingroomci of London clubs in 191". Theso bells were usually rungjoiidly at 12.30, just before 2.30, at 0.30 and just before 9.30.

10. Complete set of woollen underclothing (costing £SO) presented in August 1917 by the burgesses of Liverpool to their Lord Mayor as a testimony of affection. 11. Portrait of a ladv in national costume of 1917. Ditto of her daughter (aged 15). The public ere invited to test their skill by guessing which is the mother and which in the daughter. 12. Fragment of the German Socialist'd bomb thrj killid the German Crown Prince in September 1914. Pistol of assassin who killed him at Cologne in February 1915. Cup used by Bavarian soldier who poisoned bmi in April 1915. 13. Piece of timber from the Marii Annie, 400-ton tramp steamer, bought in September 1914 by the first Lord Gra'vesend (then George Hcguins, E-q.. ft wharfinger) for i' 1,500, and sold by him in 1917 to the "Maria Shipowners' Syndicate" for £'1,300,000. Gallery 4.—Works of Art of War Period. 1. Futurist sketch, "The Eve of Complete Victory." By Colonel Churchill.