MUSEUM PARTY IN ISLANDS
Dr. Duff Reports
Success
The 10-week expedition by a Canterbury Museum group to Rarotonga, from midNovember to the end of January, had done ’much to revive the interest of the Cook Islands people in their history, reported Dr. R. S. Duff, the museum’s director, to its trust board yesterday. Dr. Duff, who led the sixman expedition to the islands, was giving his preliminary report on the visit. This visit, he said, could be regarded as a reconnaissance in strength to assess the problems which would be met in later expeditions, and also to obtain the future cooperation of the Administration and the Maori owners of the land where excavations are to be made. Dr. Duff said that, as the shipping schedule restriced time for digging, the party had undertaken a demonstration excavation of a stone house platform. This, he said, provided an impressive demonstration of method to the local Maori community. Another aim was the commencement of a long-term site survey with the object of gaining a grasp of the fluctuations of the pre-Euro-pean settlement pattern.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30063, 22 February 1963, Page 13
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