Auckland War Memorial Museum News Number Nineteen September 1984

Page 1: Roger Green Honoured – Professor Roger Green of the Anthropology Department of the University of Auckland, and member of the Auckland Institute and Museum, has been elected a member of the United States Nation Academy of Sciences; Letter to the Editor – a letter from a disheartened Institute member disappointed by the low attendance of recent lectures; Forthcoming Lecture – An advertisement for the next Institute lecture “21 Years of the Parks in the Auckland Regional Authority”; New York Exhibitions – Director Stuart Park received funding to travel to New York for the opening of two exhibitions that contain objects loaned from the Museum; Image – The statue of the goddess Kave leaving the Museum in a crate, and an image of the statue on display.

Page 2: Council Elections – Council received no nominations other than those two members seeking re-election, so a full list of the new Council members is provided; Grinding Ahead – Continuing work on the Maori Gallery involved the moving of the hoanga or sharpening stone, the largest and heaviest single object displayed in the west gallery; Maori Plaiting Patterns – A description of the book Raranga Whakairo Maori Plaiting Patterns by Mick Pendergrast, who is working on the renovations in the Maori Gallery; Image – A card depicting some of the designs from Raranga Whakairo; Staff News – Retirement of John McCaw, the earliest serving member of the current museum staff and announcement of his replacement Juliet Hawkins; Image – Juliet Hawkins at work sketching artifacts for illustrations to be used in teaching materials.

Page 3: Matron Blewett’s Badges – Museum has received the bequest of the late Matron Annie Blewett’s nursing badges which will be added to the extensive collection of medals and badges; Image -A badge from the Auckland Hospital Board; Volunteer Guides – Second round of volunteer guides have finished training and are now at work around the Museum; Image – Guide Robyn Mills receiving her badge from Museum Director Stuart Park; What Are Those Guns? – The Story behind the two guns below the Cenotaph at the front of the Museum from their time one the H.M.S New Zealand to their time installed for defense at Narrow Neck during the Second World War; Conservation Conference – Karel Peters and Gerry Barton travelled overseas to conservation conferences delivering research papers to the Conservation Committee of the International Council of Museums.

Pages 4: AGMANZ – An explanation of what the Art Galleries and Museums Associations of New Zealand does and an announcement of the Annual Meeting; Ka-Hatitimatangi eneti – behold Hatitimatangi – The first of the new displays completed in the Maori Gallery is the Moriori display. The centerpiece of the display is a wooden carving of Hatitimatangi, the central god of the Moriori; Subscriptions – A reminder for Museum Members to pay their subscription fees; Shell Bulletin – A new volume of the Bulletin series has been published containing “Systematics of the Family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda)” which contains the results of many years of research by Museum Malacologist Walter Cernohorsky; Museum Shop and Coffee Lounge – Refurbishment is talking place in both the Museum Shop and the Coffee Lounge; Image – Museum Shop under construction.