MUSEUM AT NELSON
Mr J.R. Eyles New Director
Mr J. R. Eyles, formerly on the staff of the Canterbury Museum, has been appointed first director of the reorganised Nelson Provincial Museum.
As a schoolboy, Mr Eyles achieved fame as the discoverer of the Wairau bar Moa-hunter site in 1939, and was first associated with the Canterbury Museum when further discoveries were made in 1942. He collaborated- in frequent museum excavations for the next five years.
His practical qualifications as a field - excavator earned him a temporary appointment at the Canterbury Museum from January to April, 1949. when, in collaboration with Mr R. J. Scarlett, he excavated 70 moa skeletons from the Pyramid valley swamp. After his appointment to the permanent staff in March. 1950, he did a course in anthropology under Dr. H. D. Skinner at Otago University, continuing to give valuable service at the museum until his resignation in April, 1955, to take up the family farm near Blenheim.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30447, 22 May 1964, Page 1
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