Otago Museum Records/Archives

letter, 28/10/1936 to D.J. Mahony, National Museum, Melbourne, Greenstone tiki from Murdering Beach, can it be secured by exchange? Same site ("our home paddock") produced upwards of 25 tiki, only one of which has stayed in museum. Majority of cases and records of location are lost and tiki remain unhonoured in British and European museums. Can exchange with a better tiki with no location information.

letter, 21/11/1936, Donald March to H D Skinner, Will send stonework found at Otanerau for his inspection

letter, 21/08/1936, F Ella Mayberry, Caradon, Winscombe, England to H D Skinner, Advice that she will send a few clubs and odds and ends from the collection of Mr & Mrs Hadfield

letter, 01/12/1936, H D Skinner to F Ella Mayberry, Caradon, Winscombe, England, Acknowledging receipt of pieces from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands

letter, 26/11/1936, H D Skinner to W E Mayes, City Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester., Request for photographic prints of the exhibits of birds and animals.

letter, 19/11/1936, H D Skinner to D J Mahony, The National Museum, Melbourne, Advises plan to bring hei tiki to Auckland, unless his committee should ban the transaction

letter, 09/11/1936, D J Mahony, The National Museum, Melbourne to H D Skinner, Arrangements for exchange of Tiki from Murdering Beach for the specimens from the Hocken Collection. Also advises he will bring a box of Australian artifacts and natural history specimens for distribution among the principal museums that are interested.

letter, 08/06/1936, Donald March to Miss Catherwood, Requests a contact for Mr Hilary Collier

letter, 16/12/1936, H D Skinner to Mr E T Frost, Lake Ohia R.6. North Auckland, Advising of Museum's interest in having Moa bones from sites at Doubtless Bay.

letter, 13/06/1936, Miss Catherwood to Donald March, Blenheim, Unable to find a contact for Mr Collier

letter, 17/06/1936, Donald March, Blenheim to Miss Catherwood, Anticipates contact with Mr Collier in Blenheim in the Spring.

letter, 09/11/1936, H D Skinner to D March, Grovetown, Marlborough, Request to send stone figure from Otanerau for examination and return.