WAITANGI HOUSE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19986, 19 December 1934, Page 8

WAITANGI HOUSE

THE COLLECTION OF PICTURES

A VALUABLE ADDITION

By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, December 18. 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 enriched 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 paintings 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 follow; Queen Victoria, to whom sovereignty of New Zealand was ceded under the Treaty. Mrs Henry Williams, wife of the Rev. Henry 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 Glenely, Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1838. The Rev. William Williams, who became the first Bishop of Waiapu. The Ven. Archdeacon Mannsell. The Rev. William Colenso, mission printer, who printed Captain Hobson’s invitation to the Maori chiefs to attend the meeting at Waitangi. Lieut. Willoughby Shortland, Captain Hobson’s chief executive officer. Captain Joseph Nias, who commanded H.M.S. Herald in New Zealand when the Treaty was being negotiated. The Earl of Derby, who as Lord Stanley, was Secretary of State for the Colonies and a stalwart defender of the principles of the Treaty. The pictures other than portraits are views of H.M.S. Herald at Sylvan Bay, the signing of the Treaty at Ta Maki on July 9, 1840, and Horahora, Kokohu Island and Cloudy Bay where the final signatures were obtained.