WORK OF THE WAKEFIELDS.
NATIONAL RECOGNITION ADVO GATED.
WELLINGTON, July 14. At a meeting of the Early Settlers’ and Historical Association of Wellington this evening Mr J. 11. Collier drew attention to the work of the Wakefields in the early colonisation of Now Zealand. “I think it a standing disgrace to the people of Now Zealand,” he said, “ that they do not do something in commemoration of the Wakefields. Seventy-five years have passed since Colonel William Wakefield arrived with the first ships and took possession of this port in 1839. A million of his fellow countrymen and women are comfortably settled all over the country. Many have attained high honours, but nothing has been done towards a national recognition of " tho great and grand national services so freely rendered by those long-forgotten men in securing South Australia and Now Zealand for our race and nation ” On Mr Collier’s motion it was decided - to arrange for a deputation to the City Council and the Prime Minister to urge co-operation in organising a national recognition of the services rendered by tho Wakefields in securing New Zealand for the British Empire.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3097, 23 July 1913, Page 3
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188WORK OF THE WAKEFIELDS. Otago Witness, Issue 3097, 23 July 1913, Page 3
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