THE DOMINION MUSEUM.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 September 1915, Page 3

THE DOMINION MUSEUM.

BOARD OF ADVICE REQUIRED. By Telegraph.--P.ress Association. Wellington, Last Night. This afternoon, on the motion of Hon. A. T. Maginnity, the Legislative Council resolved that the functions of the Joint Library Committee be extended so that i.t may act as a board of 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 as the library was concerned, the committee had 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 be, he thought, to the advantage of the museum if it had the benefit of the experience of the gentlemen on both sides of the House, the museum had been starved of lateyears, 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 Buller's trustees and Mr. A. H. Turnbull, were now stored in fire-proof rooms in various parts of the city. That was not as it should be. 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.