The Rabaul Museum
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From Our Own Correspondent.
Rabaul, June 7.
THE Rabaul Museum, in which are housed many valuable exhibits of an ethnographical, ornithological and his torical nature, is now open to the public on the first Sunday each month. Hitherto residents have been unable to visit this interesting building owing to the fact that the doors have been closed after the ordinary Public Service hours, i.e., 8 to 12 a.m. and 1.30 to 3.30 p.m.
There are so many exhibits that many of them cannot be displayed to advantage, and it is time some steps were taken to organise properly a New Guinea Museum in which exhibits from every part of the Territory could be concentrated and pro perly displayed. New Guinea should have the best collection of ethnographical specimens in the world; they are avail able within our boundaries and should be obtained before the natives have disposed of them to itinerant collectors or have forgotten the art of manufacturing many of their interesting crafts.
This is a matter which might easily be taken up by the Australian National Re search Council. It is a work which should be done with the least possible delay.