OLD KAURI BEDSTEAD GIVEN TO MUSEUM
REPORTED TO HAVE BELONGED TO FIRST GOVERNOR (Special to The Times) AUCKLAND, June 8. A massive kauri bedstead said to have been the property of Captain William Hobson, the first Governor of New Zealand, has been presented to the Auckland City Council for the Old Colonists’ Museum by Mrs R. L. Birks, of St. Heliers.
Mrs Birks purchased the bedstead several years ago from an old couple living in a cottage in the city, their reason for selling it being that they were about to move into the country. It had been in their possession for a very long time. According to what had been told them when they acquired the bedstead it had formed part of the furniture of the first Government House.
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Southland Times, Issue 23840, 10 June 1939, Page 8
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