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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20623, 12 August 1932, Page 8

Recent additions to the Auckland War Memorial Museum include a pair of "mound-builders," with their home-made incubator, from Niuafou, or "Tin-can Island," in tho Tongan group, given by Mrs William Boss, of Eemuera. The mound-builders, about the shape of a slender turkey, simply build a mound of sand, bury tho eggs in it, and let tho sun do the rest. Tho young arc hatched in a feathered condition, and, after scrambling out of their sandy nest, fly away almost immediately. Tho Central and South American section of the museum has been added to by four pottery spirit Masks, niado by the Inca people of Peru, and some pieces of early Spanish colonial silver front Mexico, deposited by Mr Ralph Austin. Two examples of the ''Billies aud Charlies'' fraudulent misrepresentations of medieval plaques, made to be planted in the old Thames Embankment works, have been given, one by Mr L. C. Brabant, and the other by Mr L. T. Griffin. A valuable addition to the war collection is a water-colour painting of Ansae Cove, Gallipoli, by Sapoer H. Moore Jones, presented by Mrs J. P. Campbell. Mr W. B. Carter lias presented two fine fisli spears from Die Solomon Islands, and Mr J. I>. Richardson a collection of natural history lantern slides,