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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20904, 11 July 1933, Page 14

Sir George Fowlds, chairman of the Auckland University College Council, with Professor" Cyril R Knight, M.A., professor of architecture. Mr E. Irwin Crookes, his son Mr Charles Irwin Crookes, and Mr M. Rocke O'Shea, registrar of Auckland University College, waited upon his Excellency the GovernorGeneral, Lord Bledisloe, at Government House this week. Sir George presented to his Excellency a portfolio of early New Zealand ecclesiastical architecture, notably of churches and mission buildings in the North Island which were erected or inspired by Bishop Selwyn, the first Bishop of New Zealand. The drawings arc the work of-Messrs C. Irwin Crookes and Albert J. Sedcole, students of the Auckland University College, who in their architectural studies, have been trained by Professor Knight. For more than a century two lighthouses have marked the entry of the Nene river into the Wash, but they have never been fitted with lighting apparatus.