PICTURES FOR WAITANGI

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 December 1934, Page 14

PICTURES FOR WAITANGI

INTERESTING ADDITIONS. [per press association.] WELLINGTON, December 18. Thanks to persistent research on the part of T. Lindsay Buick, Waitangi House (on the site of the signing ot the Treaty of Waitangi) is to be enriched by a valuable addition to the collection of pictures which already hang in. that historical building. These pictures are finished copies, eithei of an old photograph or oil paintings, mostly of people who played a part in the foundation of the colony, and were in one way or another conceifled in the framing of the Treaty. They are admirable portraits in each case, and have been suitably mounted and framed, prior to being forwarded to Waitangi House at the end of the year. The list is as follows: —Queen Victoria, to whom the sovereignty of New Zealand was ceded under, the Treaty; Mrs Henry Williams, wife of Rev. Henry Williams; Mrs Richard Taylor, wife of the Rev. Richard Taylor, a devoted friend of the Maoris; Mrs James Busby, wife of the British Resident, 1834-1840; Lord Goderich, Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1832; Lord Glenely, Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1838; Rev. William Williams, who became first Bishop of Waiapu; Rev. Archdeacon Maunsell; Rev. William Colenso, mission printer, who printed Captain Hobson’s invitation to the Maori Chief to attend the meeting at Waitangi; Lieutenant Willoughby Shortland, Captain .Hobson’s chief executive officer; Captain Joseph NiaS, who commanded H.M.S. Herald in New Zealand, when the Treaty was being negotiated; and the Earl of Derby, as Lord Stanley,,Secretary of State for the Colonies, and a stalwart defender of the principles of the Treaty. Pictures other than portraits are views of H.M.S. Herald at Sylvan Bay, the signing of the Treaty of Tomaki on July 9, 1840, and Houhora Kokohu Island, Cloudy Bay, where the final signatures were obtained.