DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 May 1920, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

SOUTH AFRICAN VETERANS. By Telegraul)-Press Association, „ Wanganui, Mav 21 Messrs. Veitcli and Glenn, M.'bP 7Z a r + , O V f by a de P uta tion of the South African Veterans' Association, who asked their assistance in a!u" g . c ?r iefUa of the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act extended to veterans of the Boer War. Thev stated that the Premier had given a "promise in the House that this should be done when all the returned soldiers had been fi," c de P utation pointed out that the South Africans had already waited twenty years and had onlv tardv justice. The matter should- be dealt with without further delay. The members gave a sympathetic hearing and promised every assistance in their power. It is understood that similar representations will be made by the South African Associations j n other parts of the Dominion.

THE BROUN COLLECTION. ' Wellington, May 2. With regard to the Broun collection about which a controversy is now racing the facts as given from the official side are that the director of the Dominion Museum and other scientists urged that the dispatch to London of the collection would be a blow to entomologists and the naming and classification of New Zealand beetles would be thrown into confusion, as Major Bronn had named many, and comparison with his collection was the onlv means of identifying them. It was also stated that entomologists all over New Zealand had sent specimens and public money had been spent on the collection-

A letter has been sent to the British Museum bj the New Zealand Institute asking it to allow the collection to stay in New Zealand for a period, preferably in Wellington,