Unveiling the Grey Statue

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1206, 21 December 1904, Page 2

Unveiling the Grey Statue

Ceremony at Aucklanii

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, this day. Tub Grey statuo will be unveiled lhi s afternoon by :he Governor, Tho Hon. Colonel Pitt represent! tho Government in the unavoidable absence of Mr Seddom Tho stauie sUmls in a commanding position at the head of Qncon-stroot, and depicts Sir Goorgo Groy as ho was in 1868, when ho retired from the second Governorship of Now Zealand, ft is tl-o work of Mr Williamson, of London, and cost 1200 guineas, tho total expenditure boing £IB2O, of which tho Govomment contra biited 11000. SIR ROBEIIT STOUT ON THE QUESTION OF PIIKEDJSNCE Sir Robert. S'out writes to tho Grey Sim tin Comiuitteo an eulogiiun on tho tlcceascd stvosman. He says, inicr alia: " I sincerely ihank the committee for the invitation, and think if. my duty to explain that in consciineuco of tho Chief Justico of Now Zealand boing deprived of tho precedence which ho was formerly enlillodtoin all social functions (which tho Chief Justicos of tho Australian colonics still posses), I havo hail to decline to attend all functions savo thoso in which I am compelled lo take part in tho performance oi my officii! duties as Chiof Justice or Chancellor of tho New Zealand Univorsiiy. Though the degradation of my oiliee was by His Majesty's command, ho wa< advised thereto by tho Itight Hon. the SueroUry of State for tho Colonies, and tho advice was basoi' upon tho recoinmuiidution of Ministers of tho Crown in Now Zealand."