OLDMAN COLLECTION OF ANTIQUITIES
Expert Praises Public Servant’s Foresight
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON. June 24. The former Secretary of the Internal Affairs Department (Sir Joseph Heenan), in guiding New Zealand’s acquisition of the famous Oldman collection of Polynesian antiquities, had done a great deal for his country, said Mr K. Webster, a London antique collector, today. “If the Government were to give you or me £5 million today and tell us to scour the world to buy the equivalent of the Oldman collection now at the Dominion Museum, we just could not do it. Such things are no longer on the market,’’ he said.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28930, 25 June 1959, Page 10
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