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The New Zealand Company sent explorers eastwards from Wellington to the Wairarapa. This 1840s watercolour by the company’s chief surveyor, William Mein Smith, shows a party on the Wairarapa plains, with Mt Holdsworth as a snowy peak in the distant Tararua Range.
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Reference: B-062-021
by William Mein Smith
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