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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20039, 22 September 1930, Page 15

The 90th anniversary of the hoisting of the Union Jack at Fort Bntomart, on the shores of the Waiterrmta to mark the establishment of Auckland as the capital of New Zealand, tell last Thursday. Two unsuccessful attempts to establish settlements had been made by Captain Hobson the Governor, the Brst at Eusselltown, about four miles from Kororareka the present Russell, and then at Churchill, on the Hokianga river. Wore he made the selection at the Waitettatn, H6bson named the new site v/hich was then uninhabited, after W.AneJland. then Governor-Gener al of India. The removal from the Bay of Islands was completed early m 1841, arid the first sale of town sites was held ui April. Auckland remained the capital until February, 1865.

"Maoris who are brought before the Court, although evidently good English scholars,- often ask for a Maori interpreter to state their case in Maori, soid Mr V Smvth in nn nt the Auckland University College. "This is often scathingly commented upon, which I do not think is quite fair, as the Maori feels that he can state his ease better in his own tonme '' Mr StoVth continued. "We Ene'lish-speak-ine peoples ourselves know how mucii easier it is to.express our our own language thru m a foreign one."