the Maori of the future. For here are collected, and preserved, classified and explained, all those artefacts which were once the everyday things of Maori usage and way of life. Here are collected and classified the adzes (both of greenstone and common stone), the fish-hooks, weapons, tattooing chisels, ornaments, weapons, agricultural implements, cloaks, canoes, anchors, carvings and innumerable other relics of a way of life that is no more. Already there is a research collection which future generations of Maori scholars will find invaluable in explaining to their generation the way of life of their remote ancestors. The founding of this Maori wing was a project noble in conception and impressive in its fruition. I hope that before very long a tablet will be placed in the building embodying the names of every member and associate member of the first Maori Committee of the Gisborne Museum so that Maori generations to come will know to whom they owe the preservation of so much of their racial heritage. An interesting display in the new Maori wing of the Gisborne Museum is this model of a popular method of felling trees. By looking at the model carefully, the student can see easily just how the ancient Maori, with dreadfully slow stone tools, managed to cut down even the largest trees, such as were needed for canoe building or meeting house ridge poles. The cutting tool is a large and heavy chisel-shaped stone, lashed to a long, stout shaft. This shaft is moved backward and forward over two horizontal timbers lashed to supporting posts. The three workers used this tool like a battering ram, first punching one horizontal groove, then another slightly higher up, after which the block of wood between the two grooves was chipped out. The remarkable thing about this way of cutting trees was the use of a bow behind the tree to help to add force to the thrust of the tool. The Maori did not use the bow as a weapon, but he did evidently understand the principle of the bow. (Gisborne Photo News)