FIJI-NEW ZEALAND EXPEDITION 229 
level area in New Zealand, a magnificent country for agriculture, 
particularly stock-raising, for here the famous Canterbury mutton 
is produced. 
The St. Elmo hotel where I had reserved a room was not a 
single building but a group of seven rather small frame houses, 
one of which contained the office and dining room. I had difficulty 
in securing a suitable room although I had telegraphed in ad- 
vance. The one first assigned me was in the house furthest re- 
moved from the dining-room and without heat of any sort. Of 
course everything was filled on account of the races; but I had 
specified a room with heat and insisted on getting it. As a result 
I finally secured a front room next to the house where meals were 
served and with a real fireplace for which I gladly paid 3 shillings 
extra per day. 
I met Thomas and Glock returning from their grand tour of 
South Island, but only for a very few minutes before they took 
their train for Dunedin, farther south. They were both well and 
had had wonderful experiences during their thousand mile trip 
through South Island. Its magnificent scenery, including a thril- 
ling adventure on a great glacier, will be related elsewhere. 
A reporter from the Lyttelton paper had been notified by Mr. 
McDonald of my intended visit and was on hand for an interview 
as soon as I reached Christchurch. The resulting interview was 
quite correctly reported. 
After lunch I took a stroll to the Canterbury Museum which I 
had been told was the best in New Zealand. It is a dignified 
stone building after the style of English university architecture 
and was much more substantial than the Dominion Museum at 
Wellington and larger than the one at Auckland. There was a 
good exhibit of Antarectie birds and mammals, including many 
from Sir Douglas Mawson’s Expedition, such as the snowy petrel, 
Emperor penguins, Ross’ seal and crab-eating seal; all were well 
mounted in an appropriate habitat group. There was also a good 
collection of mammal skeletons containing representatives of most 
of the families from various parts of the world. Like all other 
public buildings here, the museum was unheated and I soon be- 
eame chilled through so did not linger to inspect the rest of the 
exhibits. 
I called on Dr. Chilton, Rector of Canterbury College, one of 
the four university colleges of New Zealand. He is among the 
ablest naturalists in New Zealand and a recognized authority, 
