ETHNOLOGICAL BOARD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18547, 3 November 1923, Page 13

ETHNOLOGICAL BOARD.

■_ » — FIRST MEETING HELD. • MAORI : PUBLICATIONS. [BE TXXXGBXrS. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.! ' • WELLINGTON. Friday. The Board of Maori Ethnological Research held its. first meeting at Parliament Buildings, Wellington, on Tuesday. The proceedings hayp now been made [ available. Judge R N. Jones, deputy-chair-man, presided, and there were also present the non. A. T. Ngata, Mr. J. Hislop, Mr. Elsdon Best, Archdeacon H. W. Williams, Dr. P. H. Buck, and Mr. H. D. Skinner. Mr. R. Hi, Balneavis was appointed secretary of the board. " It was decided that £75 be paid toward the cost of printing Archdeacon Williams' "Maori Bibleogpaph." It was resolved that a subsidy of £50 be paid to the Toa Takitini for publishing ethnological matter on behalf of the board in the columns of that paper every month for 12 months. Another decisibn was that the Polynesian Society be subsidised to the extent of £100 up to April 1, 1924, and of £300 thereafter for one year to assist in the publication of its journal. , The board decided to offer to undertake for the Polynesian Society the publication of Mr. Eladon Best's memoirs of "The Maori," and that the proceeds of the sale of the publication bo the property of the Polynesian Society for its memoir funds. The board agreed to ask Mr. Ngata •to express to tho Ngatiporou tribe the thanks of the board for their proposed contribution of £250 toward the cost of publishing "The Maori." It was decided that Mr. H. D. Skinner be asked to forward Mr. -H. i Beattie's memoir to Mr. Best, and if found suitable that publication of same should be approved as a memoir of the Polynesian Society. The board decided to communicate with the Minister-in-Charge of the Cook Islands. Administration to ascertain what has been done in the direction of publishing Mr. Savage's Rarotongan Dictionary. Appreciation was expressed at the news that the Hon. R. G. Bollard, had agreed to move .the' Maori relic 3 from the present museum . buildings "to a fireproof building. ' - '~'.'• . ' It was resolved to ask the Government that all publication of matter connected with the Maori race, especially . museum bulletins, should be entrusted to the board, and that Parliamentary grants- be made to the board for the purpose. Subject to the approval of the Hon. Minister of Interna] Affairs, it was agreed that the publication of 'Museum Bulletin No. 7" ("Maori Canoes") be undertaken by the board. Appreciation of the annual expeditions sent out by the Minister for Internal Affairs for field work in connection with Maori ethnology was expressed. It was resolved that a catalogue of the Maori and Polynesian works in the Turnbull and Dominion Museum libraries should be prepared and printed, and that it be a recommendation to tbe Minister for Internal Affairs that this be done.