Family’s land since 1830
(N.Z Press Association) BLENHEIM, Feb. 7. The Guard family of Port Underwood probably hold the New Zealand record for tenancy of the same property in the same family, says Mr I. Simonsen, secretary of the Marlborough regional committee of the Historic Places Trust. Mr Simonsen spoke qt a New Zealand Day ceremony yesterday, held on land at Oyster Bay owned by Mr Walter Guard, a descendant of the Guard family who went to the Port Underwood area in 1830. If his tenancy of 134
years was not a Commonwealth record, it was a New Zealand record, said Mr Simonsen. The day took the form of a re-enactment of the landing by a naval party at the port in 1840 when the Treaty of Waitangi was signed by the Cloudy Bay chiefs and where the sovereignty of the South Island was proclaimed in the name of Queen Victoria. A party from H.M.N.Z.S. Inverell supplied the landing party. Its commander, Lieutenant-Commander A. P. C. Whitley, was rowed ashore and given a traditional Maori welcome.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33454, 8 February 1974, Page 3
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