WELLINGTON NEWS.
QUEEN VICTORIA STATUE.
'.(Per Press Association.) I Wellington, last night. [ The Btatuto of Queen Victoria, executed by Mr Drury, R.A , London, at a cost of 4)2000, subscribed by citizens of Wellington and erected in the Post Office Square, was unveiled on Saturday by His Excellency, tho Governor, in the presence of a large number of people. There was a large muster of volunteers and bluejackets from the warships. His Excellenoy said the City now had a noble portrait of Her Majesty, in whose reign the colony grew, who was a noble example to all, and whose every aot was good. j
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1442, 1 May 1905, Page 3
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