CANTERBURY MUSEUM.
WORK IN. THE INSTITUTION. The large ease in the Ethnological Room or Canterbury Museum, previously used for Australian specimens, has been filled with a. number of exhibits, including reprints and copies of the “ Times .and the London “ Gazette,describing notable battles and other events! relics and weapons found on battlefields, 'a Union Jack left in Victoria Land, on the Antarctic continent, by Bnrchgrevinrk and recovered by the relief .ship Morning, tho miniature New Zealand ensign taken to the South Pole by Dr Wilson, a shirt belonging- to King George IV.; old copies'of the Bible, and a tablecloth belonging to Queen Anne, into which the story of Jonah had been woven. Mr E. J- Haynes, taxidermist, is now engaged repairing the specimens in the Foreign Bird Gallerv.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 16430, 23 December 1913, Page 5
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127CANTERBURY MUSEUM. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 16430, 23 December 1913, Page 5
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