COOK RELICS FOR N.Z.
CANTERBURY MUSEUM’S INITIATIVE
The initiative in bringing the Captain James Cook relics to New Zealand was taken by Dr. R. S. Duff. Director of the Canterbury Museum. While visiting England in 1947 he unsuccessfully negotiated for the transfer of the relics, and their recent arrival arose from his approach to the former Governor-General (Lord Freyberg), who is Lieutenant-Governor of Windsor Castle. Dr. Duff wrote to Lord Frey berg in October last year seeking his good offices to have the collection, given to Queen Victoria, and recently housed at the Imperial Institute Museum and Windsor Castle, added to the public displays of the Canterbury Museum. Lord Freyberg found the curator of the Imperial Institute Museum favourable to the proposal, provided the Queen consented. The Hign Commissioner for New Zealand in London (Mr T. C. Webb) also requested the transfer of the treasures to the Dominion.
The small but choice collection of native artifacts, made by Captain Cook in New Zealand, Tahiti, Tonga, and British Columbia, is at present held at the Dominion Museum. Wellington, pending a decision on their destination by the national council of the Art Galleries’ and Museums’ Association of New Zealand.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27694, 25 June 1955, Page 2
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