Crash goes the world
After 15 years of faultless service, the Canterbury Museum plaster relief globe in the Von Haast Hall of Geology, fell from its supporting axis on Thursday afternoon and is now beyond repair. The director of the museum (Dr R. S. Duff) said that the museum had purchased the globe, which is 70in in diameter, in 1956, for £7OO and it could not be replaced for anything less than $2OOO. Dr Duff said that in December the rotation motor
developed a somewhat alarming sound which caused the museum to call in a firm of engineers, who removed the globe from its shaft, checked the mechanism and replaced it before Christmas. They were planning a final check at the time it fell. “While the loss of such a valuable educational exhibit is disappointing to the museum a replacement can be obtained,” said Dr Duff.
He said that this would give the museum an opportunity to try out a less fragile material for the replacement and to increase
the information on the globe, with particular reference to the Antarctic.
The globe was made specially by George Phillip and Son', Ltd, of London, and was of the type known as orographical (emphasising the relief of mountain ranges) It was installed on a ceiling support to enable visitors to see the Antarctic area.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33443, 26 January 1974, Page 10
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