Waitangi Day
Sir,—My grandmother, Lady O’Rorke, and her parents, Julita Jane and Alexander Shepherd, arrived ini New Zealand in 1839 and were therefore in New Zealand at the time of the sighing of the Treaty of Waitangi. This treaty in these days is sometimes • looked upon as rather primitive, as treaties go, but it was signed in the right spirit As a descendant of some of New Zealand’s oldest colonists, I should like to suggest the wearing of a fern leaf by all New Zealand citizens on Waitangi Day as a reminder to us all, both
Maori and pakeha, to keep alive the spirit in which the treaty was signed.—Yours, etc., CECILIA O’RORKE. February 6, 1968. : *
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31597, 7 February 1968, Page 12
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116Waitangi Day Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31597, 7 February 1968, Page 12
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