OUR GREAT MEN.
The proposal to erect a memorial to mark the last resting place of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, whose name is indissolubly connected with the foundation of New Zealand, should evoke a hearty response from all classes in the Dominion. Wakefield was undoubtedly a, great man, and did much to popularise the colonisation of Ne3y; Zealandj and to. gstab-
lish the then young dependency; of the Crown on a secure footing. • He was one of a small band of able and distinguished ■ colonists ' whose brilliant services to the land of their adoption have been but ill requited by posterity. Their very names are fading from the minds of a generation to whom the early history of the colony,is becoming more and more \ vague and * shadowy. It is the more imperative therefore that ;an effort should be made to keep their memory alive in the recollection Of the people. The great men of the past ought, not to be forgotten. They laid the foundations on which we are now building.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13874, 7 October 1908, Page 6
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