Waitangi flag staff at Waitangi Treaty Grounds

A view of the flag staff at Waitangi, North Island, on the opposite shore to Russell, marking the spot where the Treaty of Waitangi was first signed on 6 February 1840. The previous flag staff was replaced in 1934 by the New Zealand Navy. This one was replaced in 1947.

The print is captioned: 'Waitangi Flagstaff'.

HMS Sussex arrived at Russell, New Zealand, on 6 March 1935 and departed on 12 March 1935 for Auckland.

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ID:	ALB1214.162
Type:	Photographic print
Display location:	Not on display
Date made:	6 March 1935 to 12 March 1935
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	Overall: 139 mm x 89 mm
Parts:	Royal Tour of Duke of Gloucester on HMS Sussex, 1934-1935 (Photograph album) Captain Cook's cottage (Photographic print) (ALB1214.103) A formal photograph of the crew of HMS Sussex (1928) (Photographic print) (ALB1214.119) HMS Sussex's Royal Marine and Maori tug-of-war teams (Photographic print) (ALB1214.158) Waitangi flag staff at Waitangi Treaty Grounds (Photographic print) (ALB1214.162) Four Maori women standing by a vent at Rotorua (Photographic print) (ALB1214.182) A Solomon Islander sitting on the bow of a canoe drawn up on a beach at Faisi. (Photographic print) (ALB1214.229) Four men in a Solomon Island outrigger canoe (Photographic print) (ALB1214.230) A half-length photographic portrait of an Australian Aboriginal woman (Photographic print) (ALB1214.236)

Waitangi flag staff at Waitangi Treaty Grounds

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