LORD BLEDISLOE’S PROPOSAL.
MAORI RELICS TRANSFER. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copvright, LONDON,' August 18. An Act of Parliament will be necessary to fulfil Lord Bledisloe’s proposal to recover Maori relics in the British Museum for New Zealand, says the secretary of the museum. A gift once accepted, cannot he given away, however much the authorities may wish, without Parliamentary sanction. An official of the ethnographical department says that all exhibits therein are the museum’s property. When duplicates are available loans are sometimes arranged. but the museum does not like even loans leaving the country owing to unique specimens being irreplaceable.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12428, 22 August 1933, Page 5
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100LORD BLEDISLOE’S PROPOSAL. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12428, 22 August 1933, Page 5
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