Kupe Raiatea
Photo by Ann Kilpatrick
The bronze Kupe Group Statue was originally designed by Tretheway for the 1940 New Zealand Centennial Exhibition. It was originally cast in plaster and covered in Bronze and lived at the Wellington Railway Station for decades, The Kupe Group fund raised to have the statue cast in bronze and since 2000 Kupe has a permanent home on the Wellington Waterfront