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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 283, 27 August 1935, Page 16

All the great civilisations of the world have developed out of a grain of wheat and a stream of water, said Mr. Gilbert Archey, director of the Auckland War Memorial Museum, in an address on the tombs and temples of ancient Egypt to members of the Auckland Society of Arts. Mr. Archey was explaining the basis on which the ancient Egyptian civilisation had been built and added that there was no doubt that the civilisations of the future would develop from the same sources. He referred to the decay of the old Egyptian civilisation and to the development of the country again in modern times through irrigation. “We are now watching events in Abyssinia to see what is going to happen to tlie country’s water supply,” lie remarked.