ADDITIONS TO MUSEUM.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20484, 10 December 1934, Page 8

ADDITIONS TO MUSEUM.

Early Portraits; and Flags from the Franconia. Several very interesting additions have been made to the Christchurch Museum during the past week. Of special interest to students of local history and early settlers is a framed and handsomely illustrated group of photographs of the founders of the Canterbury Vocal Union, a musical society of over eighty years ago. It was presented to the Museum by Mrs Jane Joll, of Auckland, whose father, Mr J. F. M’Cardell. was conductor of the society. Mrs Joll has also presented a characteristic portrait of Mr Crosbie Ward, taken in 1885 or 1887. Two semaphore flags from the Franconia. which was torpedoed in the Mediterranean during the Great War are another addition. Thev are presented bv a sister of the late Nurse Bilton, of Christchurch, who was cn the hospital ship Dover Castle when it rescued the survivors. Nurse Bilton was eiven the flags by the captain of the Franconia.

The third presentation is a collection of New Zealand stick insects, showing their protective colouring. These were given by Mr Stewart Lindsay.