GIFTS TO MUSEUM
Further Chinese antiques have been received by the Auckland \\ ar Memorial Museum irotn Captain W. I*. Collins, of Southern Rhodesia. He has previously given a very valuable collection, and this is now added to by a lead figure and bronze silhouettes of the Han period, which ranges from 200 B.C. to 200 A.D., and by a set of lead sleeve weights of the Tang period, about SOO A.D. Mr. -T. D. Twentyman, of Mangere, has given a bittern, and Mr. C. A. Fleming, of Remnera, a grey headed mollvhawk, a giant petrel, and a sooty shearwater petrel. Specimens of native lizards have come to hand from Mr. R. fi. Darley, of Paoroa, and Mr. A. K. Lamb.' of Parua Bay. Among ethnographical gifts are a set of sheli adzes and fishhooks from Manpiti Island, in the Cook group. aiuLa kava bowl and clubs from the Solomon Islands from Mr. A. J. Finlay, of Grey Lynn.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23758, 11 September 1940, Page 11
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