MAORI CURIOS.
PLEA TO COLLECTORS. 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. “By medium of the museum itself,” said Mr Vaile at a meeting of the institute last evening. “The history of New Zealand can be preserved as it should be. The people have many valuable relics, some of them of unique national importance, but mainly through ignorance they will not Diace 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 fio reason why the Maori collection in the now museum should not be second to none. We should specialise in the Pacific Islands’ collections and make the museum something which net only Auckland but also the whole of New Zealand can point to with pride.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3768, 1 June 1926, Page 17
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