User:Prosperosity/MuseumNewsletter

=People=

Auckland Shell Club
Powell gathered together five small primary schoolboys on 11 October 1930 and formed a Boys Club. Member Charles Fleming. In 1953 the club became a section of the Auckland Institute and Museum

October 1980 50th anniversary. 350 members. https://archive.org/details/AucklandMuseumAnnualReport1980-1981/page/n35/mode/2up?view=theater

1986 Shell Show @ Auckland Museum Auditorium August 30th-31st.

resent Officers are: Patron, Dr A.W.B. Powell; Vice-Patrons, Prof. J.E. Morton, Mr W.O. Cernohorsky; President, Mr R.C. Grange; Corresponding Secretaries, Mrs P. Town, Mrs E.T. Grange; Minute Secretary, Mrs D. Hole; Treasurer, Mr S. Town. https://archive.org/details/AucklandMuseumAnnualReport1980-1981/page/n39/mode/2up?view=theater

Our present officers are: Patron, Dr A.W.B. Powell; Vice-Patrons, Professor J.E. Morton, Mr W.O. Cernohorsky; President, Mr Doug Snook; Vice- Presidents, Mr D. Lamb, Mrs M. Morley; Secretaries, Mrs P. Town, Mrs E. Grange; Treasurer, Mr S. Town. D. SNOOK https://archive.org/details/AucklandMuseumAnnualReport1982-1983/page/n43/mode/2up

G. Stuart Park
-Master's degree in Anthropology from the University of Otago -1968-1979 he was Anthropologist at Otago Museum

Sherry Reynolds
In April 1981 Museums Liaison Officer at the Museum. -President of the DevonportMuseum Society from 1977 to 1979 -Masters degree in Anthropology from Auckland University -was a primary school teacher.

David Simmons
Resigned after press issue in 1985

=Items=

Hotunui
-Ngati Maru. carved at Whakatane between 1875 and 1878, and erected at Parawai marae, Thames, in May 1878. -By the late 1920s the meeting house had fallen into disrepair. -Dismantled, brought to AM and restored. -In 1984 restored - to depict original colour scheme, which had been replaced with red in the 1920s.

=Exhibitions=
 * 1980 'Auckland — Past and Future Landscapes'. 180m2 approx, opened 20 November 1980. Planned by  E.G. Turbott, who left in Aug 1979 but returned to supervise the installation. Designed by John Maynard. Cost (approximately $150,000), two major donations of $60k from Sir John Logan Campbell Trust and the Auckland City Council Improvement Trust

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Hinerotu Rangi Pihotahi Trainer Mihimate Teepa Leila Bridgman Marini Jackson Muriel Jackson Muriel McIntosh Mama Rongo Puti Rare Beatrice Cross Mereia Johnston Ann Robinson



John Alexander Smith
John Alexander Smith arrived in Auckland in 1841 as a merchant.

Founded Auckland Museum Left Auckland in 1857 moved to Napier, career as a merchant and entrepreneur, and a provincial politician. Involved with funding the Napier Hospital, was made the honorary patron. His oil painting hung in the hospital until the 1931 earthquake. -buried in the old Napier cemetery.

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