NEW ZEALAND HALL
AMERICAN MUSEUM BCHEME EXPEDITION GATHERING DATA (Special to Times) AUCKLAND, Friday The story of New Zealand through the is to be told in a special hall of the American Museum of Natural History, New York. Details of the proposals, which are expected to require two or three years before they can be brought to full fruition, were announced last night by Mr Michael Lerner and Dr. W. K. Gregory, leader and scientist respectively of the expedition visiting the Dominion under the auspices of the museum. The expedition had come to the Dominion for a two-fold purpose, Dr. Gregory stated. One aim was to obtain classifications of big-game fishes, and the other was to seek material for the proposed New Zealand Hall, which was to occupy the whole of the second floor in the new million and a-half dollar building shortly to be erected for the museum.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20733, 17 February 1939, Page 6
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149NEW ZEALAND HALL Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20733, 17 February 1939, Page 6
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