To his Honor John Williamson, Esq., M.G.A., Superintendent of the Province of Auckland,

The Founder and Friend of Public Education in this Province,—to which cause he has so sedulously attended during his long, able, and laborious public career—for which he set aside valuable endowments in the earlier days of the Colony—and the sound establishment of which is even now a cherished desire of his hearty,

This Feeble Attempt

In Aid of that Great Cause is Respectfully Inscribed.