MUSEUM EXHIBITS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20364, 19 September 1929, Page 12

MUSEUM EXHIBITS.

FURTHER GIFTS RECEIVED.

MAP WITH MAORI PLACE NAMES

A number of gifts of exhibits for the War Memorial Museum were acknowledged at a meeting of the Auckland Institute and Museum Council. The president, Mr. H. E. Vaile, presided. A map of the Auckland district, complete with Maori place names, was forwarded by Mr. L. Kelly, of Te Akarana Maori Association. It was decided to thank Mr. Kelly and if possible to keep the map for purposes of reference. Mr. V. R. C. Mitford, of Gisborne, has presented to the Maori section an exceptionally fine inanga greenstone pekapeka. A korowai cloak has been given by Mr. F. N. Andrews, and a sp'-cial kit for carrying fledgling decoy parrots and an old carving from a house buried by the Tarawera eruption have been presented by Mr. George Graham. A splendid greenstone mere, and a feather cloak havo been deposited by Mr. P. R. Gardner, of Kamo, as also have been a taiaha and three cloaks by Mrs. Beamish, of Taupiri. Two outstanding additions to the general ethnology section are the important series of elaborato ceremonial carvings and masks from New Guinea, New Britain and New Ireland, collected by the donor, Mr. W. It. McGregor, on a recent trip, and the exceptionally large bird-design food bowl from the Solomon Islands, the gift of the Bishop of Melanesia, Dr. Molyneux. Major H. S. N. Robinson, secretary of the Melanesian Mission, has presented a largo model of a New Hcbridean canoe.

Other intqresting additions have been received from Mrs. W. Kay, of Panmure, Miss Christina Fenton, Miss Cranwell, Mr. C. Donald and Mr. D. H. Graham. Coins havo been given by Mr. E. E. Vaile, and an old Wedgwood jar has been presented by Mr. Hugh C. Wright, on behalf of his father, the late Dr. F. W. Wright. A valuable addition to the war collection has been made by Major G. It. Hutchinson, who has prescntsd tho whole of his fino series of war posters, collected by him in England, Franco and the East.

Tho botany department has received largo cross-sections of totara and rimu from tho Taupo-Totara Timber Company and from tho State Forest' Service, while tho lion, entomologist, Mr. A. Philpott, reports tho gift of large collections of moths and butterflies by Mr. G. V. Hudson, of Wellington, and Mr. C. E. Qlarke, of Dunedin. Valuablo additions <o tho palaeontological and geological departments are series of fossils given by Professor J. A. Bartrum, Mr. D. 11. Graham, tho Geological Survey and tho Dominion Museum, and a series of hydraulic and crystalline limestones from Waro has boon presented by the New Zealand Portland Cement Company.