Copy Of Waitangi Treaty Brings £260 At Auction

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30847, 4 September 1965, Page 14

Copy Of Waitangi Treaty Brings £260 At Auction

(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Sept. 3. A copy of the Treaty of Waitangi sold for £260 at a rare book and Maori artifact auction today. The treaty was one of five supplementary treaties issued when Governor Hobson fell ill with partial paralysis in March, 1840. He sent copies to Captain William Symonds for members of the Church Missionary Society in an attempt to obtain signatures in the southern districts and mid-North Island. The copy sold today was sent to Archdeacon Brown at Tauranga. He obtained no signatures. The treaty bears Hobson’s signature and three red seals.

A private individual outbid the Auckland Museum for the treaty. By law, the document cannot leave New Zealand. A dinner plate from Captain Hobson’s service before he became Governor sold for £4O. A manuscript by George Bernard Shaw, consisting of six pages with hand-written answers to questions by a journalist on New Zealand and the world written at the Chateau Tongariro during Shaw's 1934 New Zealand visit, sold for £6O.

Mr J. G. Green has been appointed an adviser in educational and vocational guidance in Taipei. Mr Green was chief vocational guidance officer of the Education Department. He has recently been in charge of teacher recruitment.