Edward Gibbon Wakefield.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 September 1910, Page 4

Edward Gibbon Wakefield.

Sir Frederick Young has written a letter to the London Times, in Willich he warmly supports the movement for the erection of a memorial to Edward Gibbon Wakefield in New Zealand. ft is inconceivable that this great Ein pine-builder will be memoralised only in the island dominion, when we consider how inseperably his fame is bound up with the settlement, development, and prosperity of South .Australia. Great as were his services in connection with, the founding of the Now Zealand Company in company with his brothers, Colonel Wakefield and Captain Arthur Wakefield, under the presidency of the Earl of Durham, and in association with a number of other public men n England, the settlement scheme oi the Wellington pioneers was practically a failure through the retaliatory policy of tho aggrieved Colonial Office. * In South Australia, the colonising company formed under the guidance of Edward Gibbon Wa.-vcholcl had- practically p f.re-? hand. _ Though not one uninterrupted series of successes, the scheme of settlement, which devotol the entire proceeds of tho land rales to the introduction of labourers fnom the mother country, was infinitely more satisfactory to the promoters than th eombroilmont of the company with both missionaries and Maoris in New Zealand.— S'vdnev Mail.