EARLY SETTLERS RELIQUES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 17981, 26 January 1924, Page 2

EARLY SETTLERS RELIQUES.

TO THE EDITOB OF "THE PRESS." Sir,—Replying to Charlotte Jane Secundus, who poses as a humourist of a kind, it may be as well to inform that person -with respect to reliquaries of the past that our wise forebears in the 17th of Victoria, by statute printed upon blue foolscap, enacted in the Provincial Council that a Public liecord Office be established for the safe custody 'of documents affecting Cantorbury and Registrar appointed. And later that a museum for the deposit of things appertaining to museums be erected. In these places, the former in the Provincial Council Buildings and the latter "on the well-known site guarded by the Rolleston statue, and there "Charlotte"-, may enrich the mind on. the information asked for. I have never seen the Godley recipe for lumbago, l>ut if it was on 'record the first keeper of public records, late Mr A. F. N. Blakiston, would have it. ■ The other articles suited for the museum, Dr. von Haastj a most industrious collector, will have the best of them catalogued. Perhaps he might have the figurehead of the "Charlotte Jane ship," but the learned, doctor often had to' refuse as unsuitable some of the articles offered to such as that lia'm and the India beef, and the oi' clo'.—Yours, etc. COMMON SENSE.