MUSEUM PROGRESS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 669, 22 May 1929, Page 2

MUSEUM PROGRESS

EXHIBITS BEING UNPACKED INSTITUTE MEETS A report of progress, and a . i new exhibits, were presented y es t», day at the meeting of the council m the Auckland Institute and Museum presided over by Mr. H. E. Yaile. ** i The Citizens' Committee is arran, ; me for the publication of an historian booklet dealing with the museum scheme and its progress to fruition To facilitate this work, the council de. i eided to give the committee full a cess to its minutes. Mr. Gilbert Arcbey, curator, r » ported that the recouditioniug of th» meeting house Hotunui was proceed ing steadily, the decayed panels beinc repaired. “ In the natural history section, the birds were being remounted, and general unpacking work was proceeding The only display arranged was that of the model battleships. There had been 59 accessions since April lti. no fewer than 40 being the result of Mr. D. Graham's visit to the Far North, where he requested holders to send whatever articles they possessed. Among the new specimens were a carved canoe, from Mr. Henry Kingold pigeon trough, Mr. McMillan. Kai. taia; greenstone and boar ornaments Mr. Alan Bell and Messrs. W. McKinnon. S. L. Dunn. P. N. Foley, L. J Matthews, Honi Wikaitaia and Wiremu Haeikoma; spear point, bone needle and lamp bowl, Mr. H. E. Vaile; Melanesian articles. Richards Bros.; Greek wine cup, Dr. Beveridge: Maori cloak Miss M. Smith, Waipu; adzes, Miss Finlayson, Waipu: greenstone carving, Mr. h. Tettley; two model canoes Mr. Li. T. Griffin; old watch," Mr. F Day; long-finned albacore. Fisherman's Company: puff adder skins, Mrs. Hall Parnell: volcanic pipe. Mr. J. Wilsonstalactite, Mr. F. S. Wilson.