RELICS OF THE PAST

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 45, 21 August 1926, Page 8

RELICS OF THE PAST

PRESENTATIONS TO MUSEUM

FIRST PLOUGH USED IN DOMINION.

(By Talsgraph.) (Special to the "Evening Post") AUCKLAND, This Day. Auckland's Old Colonistg' ■ Museum is shortly to receive a number of valuable exhibits associated with the earliest days of settlement in New Zealand. In a letter submitted to the City Council, Mr. J. Kenderdine, a member of the Library Committee, said he had recently visited Kerikeri, Bay of Islands, where Miss C. Kemp had shown him an old plough •which belonged to her grandfather, Jameg Kemp, in 1820, and a copy of an extract from the diary of the Bev.J. Butler, relating to the day when it was first put into use on 3rd May, 1820. This plough was undoubtedly the first used in New Zea-, land, and would be a valuable exhibit in the Old Colonists' Museum. The ploughshare was in good order, but the I ironwork of the beam was much rusted, and the woodwork had gone. He had made arrangements with Miss Kemp to send the plough to Auckland. Miss Kemp had also given the museum an old single-barrel shotgun which her grandfather had owned in 1819. Mr. Kenderdine said he had obtained a bundle of old letters written by Samuel Marsden in 1820, 1823," 1824, and 1833, and three small memorandum books with a record of the builders? work in the construction of the oldest store at Kerikeri, where Bishop Bel-' wyn had his library, afterwards removed to St. John's College, Auckland.