WAKEFIELD REMEMBERED
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WELLINGTON, May 10. The annual ceremony in remembrance of Edward Gibbon Wakefield as the founder of New Zealand, was held at his grave, Bolton Street eemetery, today, when the Mayor of Wellington, Mr. Appleton, laid a wreath on the tombstone.* A wreath is annually provided from a fund established in 1940 by Viseount Bledisloe. It bore the following inscription: "In respectful appreeiation of a far-sighted colonising genius-, from a former GovernorGeneraL"
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Chronicle (Levin), 17 May 1947, Page 3
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77WAKEFIELD REMEMBERED Chronicle (Levin), 17 May 1947, Page 3
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