GIFTS FOR MUSEUM

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 484, 13 October 1928, Page 13

GIFTS FOR MUSEUM

220 IN PAST YEAR REMUERA MAN’S GENEROSITY Nearly 220 gifts have been received by the Auckland Institute and Museum during the past year. At yesterday’s meeting, Mr. H. E. Valle, the president, mentioned the contribution of £550 to the museum funds from Mr. John Marshall, of Remuera. The money will be added to the endowment capital and the institute’s thanks will be sent to Mr. Marshall. Mr. Vaile reported on the visit paid by Mr. George Graham, A. T. Pycroft, the curator and himself to Princess Te Puea Herangi, at Ngaruawahia. She had given the carved bailer belonging to Toki-a-Tapiri, the great canoe lodged at the museum and a fine paddle. On behalf of the museum, Te Puea had been presented with a huia feather and some amokura feathers. The report added that prominent among the other gifts were these: From the president, an old pigeonsnaring trough, a bone thatching spike and a greenstone pendant of an unusually pale shade; Mr. T. A. Cheppe Hall, an old canoe-bailer, a five-sided Hoanga, or grinding-stone, and a cannonball used by the French vessel Port-au-Prince in Tonga; Mr. George Graham, Maori adzes, Melanesian articles and a moa bone; Miss L. M. Browne, a chief’s club from Pentecost Island an an example of maewa plaiting; Mr. R. Maskell, carved artifact; Mr. A. D. Seabrook, grooved sinker; Mr. W. F. Wallis, of Morrinsville, sinker and several adzes; Mr. Gillen, of Puriri, three fine large old ko, or digging-sticks; Mr. Roseman, several adzes from Kaipara Heads; Mr. W. Blomfield, Maori and Island ethnographical specimens; Dr. Frith, fishing kite and line; Messrs. Goodsell’s Antiques. ancient Greek oil pottles; Mr. Henry Winklemann, adzes from Great Barrier Island; Capt. Hewitt, German colonial flag captured in the Cameroons; Mr. Spencer White, German drinking-cup from Flers; Mr. Kohn. ceremonial basket, ornamented with locks of hair. The curator, Mr. G. Archey, reported that nine groups of large mammals and native birds had been erected in their respective halls. The herbarium transferred from the Town Hall had been placed in the special room allotted to it. __