A Good Deed: Picturing Canterbury

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A Good Deed. Entry in the 2010 Christchurch City Libraries Photo Hunt. CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 NZ. CCL-HW10-UR-155.

"My great grandfather and his wife arrived in New Zealand November 1859 on the Zealandia. Parents told me John Hepworth did a good deed for a Māori chief and was presented with a Huia feather. The feather was in the possession of my father's older brother .. in about 1940 ... [but]  the  ... family can no longer find the feather. I believe but am unable to confirm that the European man with the hat on in the photo is my G[reat] Grandfather." - John Hepworth, Christchurch, 2010.

Date unknown but probably late nineteenth century.

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