WAITANGI RESIDENCY
COPY OF ORIGINAL PLAN FOR RESTORATION WORK. SECURED FiROM AUSTRALIA. A communication wasi recently addressed by the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, to the Government of New South Wales inquiring whether there was among the States archives a plan of the British Residency er.ected at Waitangi in 1833 for the accommodation of Mr. James Busby, on instructions reeeived from Lord Goderick, then Secretary of State for the Colonies. The Minister of Public Works for New South Wales, Mr. R. W. D. Weaver, has sent His Excellency a copy of such plan, which, after a prolonged search, was, with the help of the Mitchell Library authorities, discovered in Sydney, together with eorrespondenee which passed at the time between Mr. Busby and the UnderSecretary, Mr. Hay,.as representing Goveornor Bourke, then Governor of . New South Wiales. It is expected that this plan and correspondence will be of material assistance to Mr. W. H. Gummer and Mrs. W. M. Page, who, as honorary architectural ladvisers to the Wiadtangi National Trust Board, are at present engaged on the task of planning th'e resitoration of "the treaty house" to its tactual condition and appearance when it was erected 100 years ago.
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Rotorua Morning Post, 1 March 1933, Page 4
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195WAITANGI RESIDENCY Rotorua Morning Post, 1 March 1933, Page 4
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