MEMORIAL MUSEUM
SOME NEW ACCESSIONS
RELICS OF THE WAR
Several gifts and loans of interest have recently been made to the War Memorial Museum. Mr. L. E. R. Wakeman has deposited six red and black Grecian pottery vessels, obtained at Pompeii in 1869, not long after tho commencement of excavations on the site of tho buried city. A collection of English moths and butterflies has been presented by Mr. Walter Seth-Smith, of Ohakune.
The White. Ensign of Motor-launch No. 555, Dover Patrol, various war maps and documents, and a kukri, or curved knife, formerly carried by a member of the sth Ghurkas, have been presented bj' Lieutenant A. G. Carnahan.
Another addition to the war collection is a Turkish propaganda leaflet, picked up at Cape lielles in October, 1915, and given by Major-General Sir George Richardson.
Other gifts are: —A set of 10 turtleshell discs, used in a game by natives of the Gilbert Islands, from M,r. and Mrs. 11. Is. Ward; a Maori pendant made from a whale's tooth, from Mrs. Wakeman; specimens of powdered and rock limonite, a form of iron ore, from the Crawford Mineral Company, Whangarei.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21263, 17 August 1932, Page 11
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190MEMORIAL MUSEUM New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21263, 17 August 1932, Page 11
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