MAORI CURIOS.
PLEA TO COLLECTORS. (From Odb Own Correspondent.) AUCKLAND, May 26. The Maori collection in the Auckland Museum is acknowledged to be a very fine one. but according to the President of the Auckland Institute. Mr H. E. Vaile, it could be made much better. Many people keep valuable relics which are really of no interest to them, but which in the museum are of interest to the whole community. “Bv medium of the museum itself, said Mr Vaile at a meeting of the institute last evening. “The history of New Zealand can bo preserved as it should he. The people have many valuable relics, some of them of unique ’ national importance, but mainly through ignorance they will not place them in the keeping of the museum. During the past few years thousands of pounds worth of Maori antiquities have been lost through the selfishness of their owners. However, there are many more. These would be properly housed in the museum and people should undoubtedly come forward with them. There is no reason why the Maori collection in the new museum should not be second to none. We should specialise in the Pacific Islands’ collections and make the museum something which not only Auckland hut also the whole of New Zealand can point to with pride.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19800, 27 May 1926, Page 6
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