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To his Worship the Mayor of Wellington,
A.J.Johnston,
Esq
Gearge Fisher,
EsqM.H.R.
J.Howard Wallace,
Esq
AND James Petherick,
Esq
This Memento is inscribed by the Jubilee
Committee as a recognition of their valuable
services in inaugurating, and with the assistance of an
active and zealous body of Colonists of celebration at
Wellington, on the 22nd January, 1890, the important
historical event of the foundation of the Colony; when
at Petones, Port Nicholson, January 22nd 1840, the
first Pioneer Settlers arrived, and commenced, under
the auspices of the New Zealand Company, the
systematic colonisation of New Zealand.
Illuminated Addresses
Bock was in great demand as a calligrapher to memorialise notable civic and public occasions. He was commissioned to create the Illuminated Address on vellum (parchment) for Lyon & Blair's Sketch of the Catholic Church . He also rendered these two framed presentation citations which hang to this day by the Old Town Hall grand staircase in the Wellington City Council chambers. In 1883, the tables were turned when Bock was presented with an Illuminated Address by his fellow choir members at St. Peter's Church, Willis Street.