LEGACY OF £l,ooo
FOR MUSEUM LIBRARY MAORI GROUPS WANTED The late Mr. F. Shaw left tha Auckland Museum a l«9«y •* £.1,000, which is to be applied the library investment. "Is it not better to do this tliaß erect a hideous tombstone, as some people do, and spend their money lil« that?" asked tile institute’s president, Mr. 11. E. Vaile, ut the annual meetin* last night. „„,„rial Two groups of figures, a memorial to the Maori race, he declared, *«« a-equired for the new War Memo Museum. One would be descriptive of the Maori at home, and the other ut war. It was estimated that eadl would cost £I,OOO. "I do hope that some citizen m j come forward and help us." said Mn Vaile. “In fact, there are quite a numj ber of objects, each eqqually impo J“ ! upon which money can be expen j connection with the new museum.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 360, 22 May 1928, Page 12
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149LEGACY OF £l,000 Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 360, 22 May 1928, Page 12
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