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letter, 25/07/1935, H D Skinner to H Chapman, Registrar University of Otago, Request for cheque to be sent to Mr Alfred Fels for goods purchased by Mr Willi Fels.

letter, 18/06/1935, H D Skinner to H Chapman, Registrar University of Otago, Request for payment for two books from his collection which were used to procure a small greenstone hei tiki.

letter, 17/06/1935, H.D. Skinner to H Chapman, Registrar University of Otago, Mr. Willi Fels requests he be paid from the Fels Fund for material he bought in London

letter, 6/6//35, H.D. Skinner to H Chapman, Registrar University of Otago, Enclosed is payment the Medical Historical Society made to the museum for a glass-topped case from the Fiji Court of the Exhibition. Dr. Benham is devoted to the purchase of a wall-case.

letter, 31/05/1935, H.D Skinner to H Chapman, Registrar University of Otago, We received two canoe bailers from Wanganui River, from the estate of H.J. Parker. Please pay the local District Public Trustee from the Fels Fund as organised by Willi Fels

letter, 23/05/1935, H.D. Skinner to H Chapman, Registrar University of Otago, We received from Mr H.S. McCully a large and fine greenstone slab showing the principal processes of working. Please pay him from the Fels Fund

letter, 15/05/1935, H.D. Skinner to H Chapman, Registrar University of Otago, We received a tokotoko (Maori staff) from Muirhead, Moffat & Co., and from E. Cox three cases of ethnographic material. Please pay each from the Fels Fund.

letter, 13/05/1935, H.D. Skinner to H Chapman, Registrar University of Otago, We received a reptilian carved head of soapstone from Mr. J McTaggart. Please pay him from the Fels Fund.

letter, 10/05/1935, H.D. Skinner to H Chapman, Registrar University of Otago, Enclosed is the account of Morris, Middleton & Co. on three cases of ethnographic material bought from Mrs E. Cox. Please forward a cheque from the Fels Fund

letter, 09/05/1935, H.D. Skinner to H Chapman, Registrar University of Otago, I have received a shipment from Drury Low of Cook Island material, including bow 7 terminal of an ancient canoe, wooden bowls, adze-handle, stacilite pounders and sinkers, adzes, canoe bailer, pearlshell pendant, kit rack. Please pay for this from the Fels Fund. Also please adjust payment for Rev. Alexander Don's collection

letter, 02/05/1935, H.D. Skinner to H Chapman, Registrar University of Otago, Before leaving Dunedin Mr Fels gave spending authority of the Fels Fund to me, I am asking him to write to inform you of this.

letter, 26/04/1935, Hon. Secretary Otago Institute to H Chapman, Registrar University of Otago, Please thank the University Council on behalf of the council of the Otago Institute for permission to use the lecture rooms by the Science Congress. We also ask for permission to use the museum for a conversazione.

letter, 18/04/1935, Heads of Departments (Memorandum) to H Chapman, Registrar University of Otago, The University Council has directed me to notify heads of departments that it is inadvisable for individual members of staff to approach public bodies for assistance to the university without the consent of the Council.

letter, 16/04/1935, H.D. Skinner (Hocken Lecturer in Ethnology) to H Chapman, Registrar University of Otago, The information you asked for has already been sent at the suggestion of Dr. Benham. Miss Jean Ramsay does not need to attend either anthropology lectures or practical.

letter, 02/04/1935, H.D. Skinner to H Chapman, Registrar University of Otago, Regarding recent maintenance costs to the museum, including of the furnace, leaking window frames, and lantern slides. Please submit these matters to Mr Frank Mitchell

letter, 02/04/1935, H.D. Skinner to H Chapman, Registrar University of Otago, We received from Mr H.C. Roadley a large and rare steatite pendant from Pelorus Sound. Please pay him from the Fels Fund

letter, 14/03/1935, H.D. Skinner to H Chapman, Registrar University of Otago, Thanks for you letter regarding Downes being to blame for the delayed cheque. I have written him about it.

letter, 13/03/1935, H.D. Skinner to H Chapman, Registrar University of Otago, Last year T.W. Downes sent the Hocken two of Gilfillian's sketchbooks and agreed to sell them, but no cheque has reached him. Could you please forward him a cheque.

letter, 21/02/1935, H.D. Skinner to H Chapman, Registrar University of Otago, We have received from Mr W.A. Ferry a small stone mere, a stone adze, 3 small greenstone adzes and three greenstone fragments. Please pay for these from the Fels Fund.

letter, 19/02/1935, H.D. Skinner to H Chapman, Registrar University of Otago, At the Museum Management Committee meeting Mr A.C. Matheson was elected to represent the Association on the committee.