WAITANGI RESIDENCY
COPY OF ORIGINAL PLAN USE IN RESTORATION WORK [bx telegraph—PßESS association] b'i WELLINGTON, Tuesday A communication -was recently addressed by the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, to the Government of New Scuth Wales inquiring whether there was among the State archives a plan of the British Residency erected at Waitangi in 1533 for the accommodation of Mr. Games Busby, on instructions received from Lord Goderick, then Secretary of State for the Colonies. The Minister of Public Works for New South Wales, Mr. R. W. D. Weaver, has sent His Excellency a copy of such plan, which, after a prolonged search, was, with the help of the Mitchell Library authorities, discovered in Sydney, together with correspondence which passed at the 'time between Mr. Busby and the Under-Secretary, Mr. Hay, as representing Governor Bonrke, then Governor of New South Wales.. It is expected that this plan and correspondence will be of material assistance to Mr. W. H. Guinmer and Mr. W. M. Page, who, as honorary architectural advisers to the Waitangi. National Trust Board, are at present engaged cn the task of planning the restoration of "the treaty house" to. its actual-condition and appearance when it was erected 100 years ago. •
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21423, 22 February 1933, Page 10
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