GIFTS TO MUSEUM.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 112, 14 May 1935, Page 8

GIFTS TO MUSEUM.

ANCIENT STALACTITE. MAOHf IMPLEMENT^. Recent pifts of Maori implements to the Auckland War Memorial Museum Include three wooden kninarn weeders, a fern pounder and stone adzes found at Parapara, near Awanui. an 1 presented by .Master Micky Sheerun. Bone implements, iid/.e.s antl polisliers found on the sandhills at The Mount, Tailranga, have been presented by Mr. Scott, of Tauranga. A stone adze found at Mauitiaina, Panm lire, has been given by Mr. Ci. R. Brookes, of Auckland.

An Interesting pyrites stalactite has been presented to the geological ecction by Mr. A. G Luiin. It was found in a Hiktiraugi coal mine and had been formed by water charged with iron passing through the coal and combining with the iron mid sulphide to form pyrites, lii the course of countless ages stalactites wore formed .bunging from the cosil eeame. It ie n greyish glistening substance flecked with brassy specks. Mr. A. Ti Pycroft luir given a s;\ci* men of jasperiaed agate, a form of petrified \v,oocl.

A riire black end (epinepiielas) caught In the Haui'aki Gulf ha« been presented l>y Mr. J. Shirley, of Brown's Bay. Several «ir,:<!l land snails found on the mountain topi round Nelson have been presented by Mr. F. W. Allan ami Mrs. W. Mount.

Oiftrt to the historical section of the Museum include the first and nine subsequent isßliee of the "Te TOrea*" n nntlve newspaper published in IBrto, They were iiresented by Mre, E, T. Costello. An ofllcerV ewoitl of the 05th Rpglnieht hns been given by Mi\ L. WttriloOk. Intei'ostiiiff (loctimonts over #'tOO years olil hitve liocn prcneiitod bv Mr. W. E, Sttrgeiit'. ot Mount Hoskill. They deal chiefly with uppveiitloee . Indentures and represent the period from the reign of James I. to that of George 11.