ADJUNCT TO WAITANGI

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18584, 19 December 1934, Page 5

ADJUNCT TO WAITANGI

HISTORIC PICTURES COLLECTION COMFI,ETED MR. BUICK’S RESEARCH (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Thanks to persistent research on the part of Mr. T. Lindsay Buick, Waitangi House, on the site of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, is to be cnrichod by a valuable addition to the collection of pictures which already hang in that historic building. These pictures are finished copies either of old photographs or oil paintiugs, mostly of people who played a part in the foundation of the colony, and were, in one way or another, concerned 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 tin- Rev. Henrv Williams; Mrs. Richard Taylor, wife of the Rev. Richard Taylor, a devoted friend of the Maoris; Mrs., James Busby, wife of the British Resident from 1833 to 1840; Lord Goderich, Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1832; Lord Glonclg, Secretary of State for the Colonics in 1838; the Rev. William Williams, who became the first Bishop of Waiapu; the Rev.. Archdeacon Maunsell; the Rev. William Colenso, the mission printer who printed Captain Hobson’s invitation to the Maori chiefs to attend the meeting at. Waitangi; Lieut. Willoughby Short-land, 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 at Tamaki on July 9, 1840, and Horahora, Kokohu Island, and Cloudy Bay, whore the final signatures were obtained.