GUEST OF GOVERNMENT FOR CENTENNIAL
MR W. P. BARRETT, OF TLTAHIWI Mr W. D. Barrett, Upoko-Runanga, of Tuahiwi, will leave for Wellington on Saturday night as the guest of the Government, to attend the eentennial celebrations of the Wellington Provin. cial Centennial Council, the opening of the Wellington provincial centen* nial memorial by his Excellency the Governor-General, and also the historical celebrations to be enacted on the Petone recreation ground after the provincial memorial function. Mr Barrett is a grandson of Dicky Barrett, a well-known whaler of the early days, who was the first licensee of Barrett's Hotel, Wellington, and who had his trying-out pots on the site where the Hotel Cecil now stands. Barrett's reef at the entrance to Wellington harbour was also named after him.
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Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22921, 18 January 1940, Page 6
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