THE DOMINION MUSEUM.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 24, 27 September 1915, Page 7

THE DOMINION MUSEUM.

BOARD OF ADVIUE REQUIRED Wellington, September 24. Tins afternoon, oz the motion ot ii OU . A. T. Magiunu.*, tuo Legislative Council resolved that the functions oi the Joint Library Committee be extended so that it may act as a board oi advice in connection with the Dominion Museum. In the House of Representatives today, Mr G. J. Anderson brought up the report from the Joint Library Committee. Hon. G. W. Russell said the Library Committee had, at his suggestion, adopted this report. So far a s the library' was concerned, the committee I, ,[ some control, but they had no control over the museum, and it was not now proposed that they should do more than act as a board of advice. It would lio, he thought, to the advantage of the museum if it had the benefit of the experience of the genii..men on both sides of the House, the museum had been starved of late vears, and that starvation was most manifest in the absence of a suitable building, and in the absence of that building many of the most valuable of articles, donated by the late Sir Walter Boiler's trustees and Mr A. Jt. Turn (mil, were now stored in fireproof rooms in various parts of the city. That was not as it should he. He was anxious to have the assistance of members of both' Houses who took a keen interest in art and : science. ; The report was adopted.