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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2517, 2 June 1909, Page 6

Speaking at the dinner tendered to Mr Donne at Wellington last week Sir _ Joseph Ward said very few people ’ could realise what Mr Donne had. accomplished in promoting immigration, the tourist traffic, and land settlement. When it was mentioned that the Tourist Department frequently received as many as a thousand letters at a single mail from people in all parts of the globe making inquiries about New Zealand; and when it was realised that the traffic from overseas resulted in a gain to New Zealand of between £300,000 and £400,000 a year, it would be admitted that the institution of the department presided over by Mr Donne 'had been a great benefit to the Dominion. Sir Frederick Bridge, lecturing on the instruments of olden times at Gresham College (England), held up what I looked like an old school ruler, and said, “This is a Nay—the flute of the Egyptians. It is probably 6000 years old.”