GREAT MAN’S GRAVE
HOBSON REMEMBERED CHILDREN’S TRIBUTE The Symonds Street traffic roared past and the careless throng had no mind for Captain William Hobson, the man who founded Auckland for them. TT was 85 years ago yesterday since Captain Hobson was laid to resit in the Grafton Street Cemetery. A mai’ble slab on concrete is all that now marks his grave. It was the children who remembered him yesterday, and a band of young pilgrims from the Newton Central School placed mounds of flowers on the grave. The children gathered at the graveside, and their headmaster, Mr. S. Walker, in addressing them, said that Captain Hobson, the first Governoi of the colony, had always followed the course of duty with devotion. He iad brought peace to the land with the Waitangi Treaty, a unique agreement between a great nation and a savage people. Mr. H. S. W. King, a member of the Auckland Education Board, said that Captain Hobson was a man who lad always followed the school motto, “Truth Without Fear.”
The children also visited the grave of Judge Frederick Manning, the Pakeha Maori.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 148, 13 September 1927, Page 9
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