MAORI CANOE MODEL

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 908, 27 February 1930, Page 9

MAORI CANOE MODEL

MUSEUM NEGOTIATING FOR PURCHASE BRONZE WREATH FOR SHRINE Xegotiations for the purchase of a delicately carved model Maori canoe six feet long are to be put in hand by the Council «of the Auckland Institute I and Museum. When tho question was discussed by the council on Tuesday, Professor A. P. Worley raised the point of the ethnological significance of such j a model. In reply to a query as to whether Maoris carved model canoes, j the curator, Mr. Gilbert Archey, said Mr. Elsdon Best had declared that Maoris had made models. A request is to be sent by the council to Dr. Raymond W. Firth, who is now lecturer in anthoropology at Sydney University, asking - him to represent the institute at the biennial conference in Brisbane in May of the Australasian Society for the Advancement of Science. A motion of sympathy with Mr. Kenneth Mackenzie, a member of the institute, at the death of liis father, Sir Thomas Mackenzie, was passed. The balance of the funds of the War Memorial Fund Committee, a sum of £279 2s Id, was forwarded to the council for payment of any approved j claims within three months, the provision of a bronze wreath for the shrine in the Hall of Memories, and the contribution of the balance to the Roll of Honour fund of the Returned Soldiers’ Association. At the suggestion of the president. Mr. H. E. Vaile, active measures will be taken to ensure more use of the museum’s newly-housed library by the 850 members.