Queen Victoria Statue (1902-05) was Wellington's first significant sculpture disign by Alfred Drury's .
The bronze statue, a replica of Drury's commission for Portsmouth, was originally located in Post Office Square Wellington.
The Queen Victoria Statue was unveiled in 1905 in front of a crowd of 3,000 while the Wellington Garrison Band played "God Save the King".
In Governor Lord Plunket's speech, he likened the work to the Statue of Liberty.
"I personally think it is a very happy circumstance that this statue should stand where it does, for it proclaims to the anxious, weary immigrant as he arrives upon your shores, that besides the better material prosperity he has been led to expect, he has come among a loyal people, and is under the British Constitution, with the freedon which every British subject enjoys, and which is the envy of every foreign nation"
The Queen Victoria Statue was moved to its current location six years after it was unveiled as it had become a traffic hazard.
The Portsmouth one dates from 1903, a further copy was put up in Wellington, New Zealand, which is accompanied by three small plaques in high relief on the base. The panel on the back side of pedestal depicts the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, with a Maori chief on the left, and William Hobson on the right. Until 1967, this image was on the back on New Zealand's ten-shilling note.
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1. At posted coordinates, take a photo of yourself or your personal item (cacher name on sign etc) with the Queen Victoria clearly in the frame
2. Where was the original location of the Statue in Wellington New Zealand ?
3.the total number of face's on the small plaques round the base
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