WAITANGI GIFT

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 177, 22 February 1933, Page 6

WAITANGI GIFT

MISSING PLAN DISCOVERED Press Association. —Copyright. Wellington, Feb. 21.—1 n reply to a communication recently addressed by Lord Bledisloe to the Government of New South Wales inquiring whether there was among the State archives a plan of the British residency erected at Waitaiigi in 1833 for the accommodation of Mr. Busby on instructions received from Lord Goderick (afterwards Earl of Ripon), then Secretary of State for the Colonies. The Minister of Public Works and Health for New South Wales, Mir. Weaver, has sent His Excellency a copy of such a plan, which after a prolonged search has, with the help of the Mitchell Library authorities, been discovered in Sydney, together with correspondence which passed at the time between Mr. Busby and the Under-Secretary, Mr. Hay, as representing Governor Bourke, then Governor of New South Wales. It is expected this plan and correspondence will be of material assistance to Messrs. Gummer and Page, who as honorary architectural advisers to the Wlaitangi National Trust Board, are at present engaged on the task of planning the restoration of "The Treaty House" to its condition and appearance when erected 100 years ago.