Brees, Samuel Charles 1810-1865 :Plain of the Ruamahanga, opening into Palliser Bay near Wellington. This view represents about sixty miles of the length of the plain from North to South / Drawn by S. C. Brees, esq.r, Chief Surveyor to the New Zealand Company [1843]. Day & Haghe. London, Smith, Elder [1845]

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Brees, Samuel Charles 1810-1865 :Plain of the Ruamahanga, opening into Palliser Bay near Wellington. This view represents about sixty miles of the length of the plain from North to South / Drawn by S. C. Brees, esq.r, Chief Surveyor to the New Zealand Company [1843]. Day & Haghe. London, Smith, Elder [1845]

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An extensive view of the Wairarapa Plain with Wairarapa Lake on the left, Rimutaka Range and Tararua Ranges in the background ("the snowy rnage in the distance is the Tararua Mountains"), a wild boar hunt in the foreground, with 5 Maori, 3 Pakeha men and four dogs and a bivouac noted on the plain to the right. Bracken and tree ferns in the foreground and clumps of bush on the plain. The accompanying text reads: This district lies about fifty miles from Wellington by the nearest road. Mr C...

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Date created

1843

Creator

Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865

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Locations

Lake Wairarapa / Remutaka Range / South Wairarapa District / Tararua Range / Wairarapa, Lake / Rimutaka Range

Related subjects

Kettle, Charles Henry, 1821-1862 / Dogs / Pig hunting / Pigs / Surveyors / Lake Wairarapa / Remutaka Range / South Wairarapa District / Tararua Range

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