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Early Wellington
Education
Education.
One of the early pioneers, Mr. Jabez Allen, who had opened a general store among the sand hills, wishing to have his girls' education attended to, secured the services of a youthful Miss Annie Maria Smith, who had recently arrived by the “Oriental,” as governess to his children.
Presently some of the other settlers
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were invited to send their girls to Mr. Allen's house to be instructed with his own children. This arrangement continued until the settlers were transferred to the shores of Lambton Harbour.
Fig. 23—Hutt Road, taken at the Gorge, looking towards Wellington.
Fig. 24—Hutt Settlement, 1840. Copied by Mr. B. R. Ward, A.R.I.B.A., from the original sketch by Betts Hopper, Esq., in Mr. E. G. Pilcher's possession.