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148. DIRECTOR A. HAMILTON. 



and the answer was favorable to our journey thither. We also got 

 many guide-books and the promise of photographs. The necessary 

 travel arrangements finished, we turned to the museum, still, unfor- 

 tunately, in its wooden case in the midst of other wooden buildings. 

 How is it that the progressive New Zealand Government can remain 

 so far behind other, I may say all other, nations in this matter of 

 protecting from destruction by fire collections so valuable as these 

 in this museum? The Wanganui Museum is another example of 



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