MAORI RELICS
IN BRITISH MUSEUM.
PROPOSED RECOVERY,
(Received Saturday, 11 a.m.) . LONDON, Friday
An act of Parliament will be necessary in order to fulfil Lord Bledisloe’s proposal to recover Maori relics from the British Museum for New Zealand, says the secretary of the museum. A gift once accepted cannot be given away, however much authorities may wish, without Parliamentary sanction. An official of the Ethnographical Department says that all exhibits in the department are the museum’s property. “When duplicates are available loans are sometimes arranged,” he said, ‘ ‘ but we do not like loans leaving the country because they are unique specimens and are irreplaceable.”
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 19 August 1933, Page 5
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