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Lord and Lady Bledisloe with Maori at Picton
Date: January 1934
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Kingsford, Alfred Reginald Bellingham, 1891-1987
Reference: EP-NZ Obits-Bledisloe, Lord-02
Description: Lord and Lady Bledisloe standing with a gathering of Maori on Picton foreshore at the presentation of a large totara chair and a pounamu for the Waitangi Treaty House. The organiser of the presentation, Te Ari Pitima, is seated at the front. Photographed by A R Kingsford of Nelson 18 January 1934. Standing left to right: Ted Hemi (with headband), Pongi Hemi, Lord Bledisloe, Peter Macdonald (with white hair), Hariata Huntley, Dolly Tonga (just behind Lady Bledisloe), Lady Bledisloe, Tete Arthur, George Tonga, Poi Love (immediately behind Nancy Riwaka), Nancy Riwaka, Tom Riwaka (behind and to the right of Nancy Riwaka), Puhi Huntley, Joe Riddell. Kneeling: Eddie MacDonald (Huntley) (to left of Lord Bledisloe), Lemon Holder, Doris Riwaka, Peki Riwaka, Buna Riwaka (with taiaha), George Riwaka. Sitting: Rachael and George Huntley (part shown), Te Ari Pitama, May Horrey (Tonga), Lily Matangi, Vera Arthur, Kathy Riwaka, Kelly Tonga Photograph published in the Evening Post 19 January 1934. Originally identified as at Waitangi. Corrected after contact by family of Hariata Huntley, who is also in the photograph. Names supplied by a researcher. Lord Bledisloe was Governor General of New Zealand from 1930 to 1935. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 20 x 15.3 cm