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Scenery Preservation Commission - scenery preservation

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The Scenery Preservation Commission

The Scenery Preservation Commission identified scenic and historic sites and administered the Scenery Preservation Act 1903. The first commission was appointed in March 1904 under the chairmanship of Polynesian Society chair and former surveyor-general Stephenson Percy Smith. Other members were Henry Matthews, the government's chief forester; John Marchant, surveyor-general; William Smith, horticulturalist and amateur ethnologist; and Major Hoani Tunuiarangi, Rangitane and Ngati Kahungunu leader and member of the Maori parliament (Kotahitanga).

Scenery Preservation Commission

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The Scenery Preservation Commission

(From left to right) Major H. Tunuiarangi (Ngati Kahungunu); W.J. Marchant (surveyor-general); S. Percy Smith (former surveyor-general and co-founder of the Polynesian Society); H.J. Matthews (government forester); W.W. Smith (expert horticulturalist and curator of the Ashburton Domain and later Pukekura Park)

Christchurch City Libraries Collection, Weekly Press, 27 April 1904, 35

Stephenson Percy Smith

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