FAMOUS FAMILY
PHOTOGRAPHS FOR WELLINGTON MR COATES - BRINGS? THEM. When the Prime Minister returns to the Dominion he will bring with him two sets of photographs of the famous Wakefield family. These have been handed to Mr Coates for the Turnbull Library and for the Early Settlers’ Associatioh. There are already paintings of Colonel Wakefield and of Edward Gibbon Wakefield in the Town Hall. Among the photographs now in the possession of Mr Coates is one of Captain Arthur Wakefield, a naval officer, who met his death at the hands of Maoris at Nelson, of Colonel Wakefield’s grandmdther, his parents and his aunt. There are also pictures of Mr and Mrs Torlesse, connections of the Wakefield family. Both weTe interested in the New Zealand Company, and their son was in Nelson with Arthur Wakefield during troublous times.
Torlesse returned to England and took up surveying, finally being one of the surveyors appointed during the migration to Canterbury, and being given an important post because he understood a little Maori.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12619, 2 December 1926, Page 6
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169FAMOUS FAMILY New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12619, 2 December 1926, Page 6
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