KIWI FOR AMERICA

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30399, 25 March 1964, Page 1

KIWI FOR AMERICA

Found Dead On Road

A dead kiwi will leave New Zealand today bound for the Milwaukee Public Museum in Wisconsin. The bird was found dead on a North Island highway by a person who put it in a refrigerator. “He very kindly gave it to me and 1 have spent a great deal of time visiting high officials to get the permit allowing me to take it home,” the Milwaukee Museum’s curator. Mr W. E. Dickinson, said in Christchurch yesterday. Mr Dickinson came to New Zealand with an American big-game fishing club which not long ago fished at Mayor’s Island and Whitianga. “I didn’t do any fishing though. My purpose in being there was to take notes and measurements of the fish caught so that when I get back home the museum can reproduce them in the form of fibreglass models,” he said. Museums he visited in Auckland, Wellington and at Christchurch were very progressive, he said. “It seems you have a general staff problem. This seems to be common to museums all over the place,” he commented. Milwaukee museum was on the same pattern as Canterbury’s.

"Actually we are putting up a new building and the first exhibit will feature an old Milwaukee street. This will be pretty much the same as you have here at your local museum with its early Christchurch street,” he said.