Lot 3077

Description

The Prime Minister of New Zealand Invitation, to Mr T.D.Burnett to a Luncheon at Parliament House, Wellington on Monday 17th September, 1928 to meet Squadron-Leader C.Kingsford Smith, M.C., Flight-Lieutenant C.T.P.Ulm, & Messrs. H.A.Litchfield & T.H.McWilliams; also early bi-plane and zeppelin over Stonehedge, Salisbury Plain b&w postcard, unused. Both with a few spots of foxing, the invitation with a crease at bottom right corner, otherwise very fine. (2)

Thomas David Burnett was a New Zealand politician representing the rural Temuka electorate from 1919 until his death in 1941. He was a member of the Reform Party and then, in 1935, he joined the National Party. His residence which he had built at Timaru's Perth Street in 1876 became the South Canterbury Museum after his death.