AN UNUSED COLLECTION

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6492, 11 April 1908, Page 3

AN UNUSED COLLECTION

REGRET EXPRESSED. PRESS ASSOCIATION. NELSON. April 10. At a meeting of the committee of the Horticultural Society, the secretary reported. having asked Mr V r .V. ment Biologist, for a loam of the depjmtr ment's fruit models for display at the coming show. A reply was received that Mr Kirk was unable to comply with the request, as the department's museum hafl been relinquished, and the models stored in some inaccessible place. ■. On Mr Graham, M.P., communicating with the Minister, a reply was received stating that boxes of models had been temporarily packed away 1111111 accommodation had hccn secured for an Agricultural Museum, hence the department regretted it could, not get at them to lend them. Mr . McNab adds:—“No on© regrets this more than myself. ’ Much disappointment is expressed at the privation of the coming show of an exhibit of such educational value, and the temporary loss to orchardista of < models costing mpeh money ana time in their collection- Tho committee earned u resolution regretting that so vauame and instructive a collection was not for public instruction.