Last month at the 4th General Meeting of UNESCO’s Memory of the World Committee for the Asia Pacific region (MOWCAP) in Macau, The Tokyo War Crimes Collection, donated to the University in 1949 by the New Zealand Judge on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, Justice Erima Harvey Northcroft, was one of 8 new inscriptions added to the Memory of the World Register. For details see:http://www.unesco.mowcap.org/
Australia picked up the certificate on our behalf. The 2 other New Zealand inscriptions on the (International) MOW Register are the Treaty of Waitangi and the Women’s Suffrage Petition, which gives an indication of the significance of this collection to the Asia Pacific region. This collection has ‘lived’ in a number of library locations over the years and is now cared for as part of the documentary archives collection in the Macmillan Brown Library. The inscription on the Memory of the World Register is a real coup for the University and shows we can hold our own in terms of world class collections!

Jill Durney