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Education Section During the year the education services again began to function regularly, although on a restricted scale. In May, 1946, Mr. L. Stannard was appointed Education Officer. One thousand five hundred children, almost all from primary schools,. public and private, attended at regular intervals for lessons. Because of transport difficulties, a large number were debarred from attending. A beginning was made with the organizing of natural-history clubs for secondary-school pupils on a vbluntary basis outside school hours, twenty-five to thirty pupils of both sexes from eight local schools pursuing insect studies. This work is being developed by the Education Officer in conjunction with the Museum officers, who also have identified natural-history material for both teachers and pupils throughout the Wellington Province. The loan collection is being overhauled and regrouped. As facilities at the Museum are becoming increasingly available to city schools, it is now felt that the loan collection can be better developed for the benefit of country schools. Therefore, the Wellington City loan-collection service has been discontinued in the meantime. The Education Officer and his assistant teacher have had the help of forty-eight student teachers from training college, in groups of eight, each group being at the Museum for six weeks. All of the senior officers of the Museum have assisted the teaching staff in the training of these student teachers. Maori Section During the year the whole of the Maori collection of carved material has been overhauled and some thirty specimens mounted on specially prepared stands. Two series of pataka carvings have been erected in the main exhibition hall and other carvings replaced in position. Field-work by Mr. W. J. Phillipps has been continued in the Rotorua and Bay of Plenty districts, and numerous carved houses have been examined. In carrying out this work the Museum is indebted to the Under-Secretary, Internal Affairs Department, and his officers, who have afforded travelling facilities in the districts named. The following papers written by Mr. W. J. Phillipps have been published : " Carved Houses of Te Arawa," Dominion Museum Records, Vol. 1, No. 1, 46 pp.; " Maori Art," 44 pp., H. Tombs, Ltd., Wellington. Ornithological Section Routine work on Museum specimens has continued, and new specimens have been mounted as required. Dr. W. R. B. Oliver and Mr. C. J. Lindsay visited Golden Bay, Nelson, during December, 1946. Some time was spent at Farewell Spit Lighthouse studying the bird-life in the vicinity. Moving pictures of mating gulls and terns were taken. Field-work also was carried out by Messrs W. J. Phillipps and C. J. Lindsay, who, on behalf of the Department of Internal Affairs, compiled a list of the birds with notes on the species in the Rotorua Acclimatization District. Important accessions include : (1) A moa skeleton collected at Waikaremoana (Dinornis ingens), and purchased from a Hastings collector. (2) A collection purchased from Mr. E. J. Haynes, Christchurch, including mounted New Zealand birds and a collection of bird-skins, the most important being two Emperor penguin-skins and two eggs of the laughing owl. (3) Victoria penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome), received from the Byrd Antarctic Expedition.

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