Queen Victoria Statue, Wellington

Wellington's Queen Victoria was sculpted by Englishman Arthur Drury Unveiled in 1905 it was one of three by the sculptor; others being in Portsmouth and Bradford.

In contrast to her Auckland presence in pride of place in Albert Park, Wellington's Queen Victoriais isolated between two traffic streams.

She was moved here in 1911 after having started life in 1905 in the centre of commercial Wellington, on Post Office Square, in front of the Chief Post Office, gazing out along Queen’s wharf where she was Wellington's first significant *sculpture.*The pedestal includes a bronze relief depicting the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, an image often used in text books and on the 1940 centenary ten shilling banknote.

Subsequent attempts to move her engendered protests from the residents of Mount Victoria so here she stays.