Wellington Gallery

Royalty - Queen Elizabeth II Visit to New Zealand

The Privy Council meeting in Governmnet House, Wellington, New Zealand. Front row, left to right; Sir Kenneth Gresson; Keith Holyoake (Prime Minister); Queen Elizabeth II; the Duke of Edinburgh; and Sir Harold Barrowclough. Back row, left to right; Sir Michael Adeane (Private Secretary to the Queen); Sir Alexander Turner; Sir Richard Wild (Chieff Justice of New Zealand); Jack Marshall (Deputy Prime Minister); Sir Alfred North; Sir Thaddeus McCarthy and Sir Godfrey Agnew (Clark to the Privy Council)

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A recent picture taken in Wellington Harbour shows a short Sunderland flying boat

A recent picture taken in Wellington Harbour shows a short Sunderland flying boat of the Royal New Zealand Air Force and a Fokker Friendship belonging to the National Airways Corporation of New Zealand. The Sunderland a Mark 5 was built at Rochester in Kent in 1944-45. This is thought to be the oldest operational type of aircraft in the world. The first one was built in 1937. The Friendship one of 8 operated on the internal routes of New Zealand by NAC was built by the Fokker company at Schiphol Suid Amsterdam in 1961

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Katherine Mansfield, pen name of Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp (1888-1923) short

Katherine Mansfield, pen name of Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp (1888-1923) short story writer born in Wellington, New Zealand. Mansfield in 1914. In 1918 she married the English writer and critic John Middleton Murry. Halftone after a photograph

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