15 October 2020
Nathaniel Manning
By email:
[FYI request #13851 email]
Dear Nathaniel
Official information request – Status of Memorial Plaque
I refer to your request for information under the Official Information Act 1982 (the
Act) dated
22 September 2020:
I would like to request information regarding the memorial plaque that once
stood in the Cotton Carpark, inscribed with the following:
"In Memorial
This plaque commemorates an oak tree that graced this site for forty years. It
was felled by the bureaucracy in December 1990 to make space for one more
car."
I was hoping to find out what has happened to the plaque; was it destroyed in
the development of the new Maru building, or was it removed for safekeeping
(and if so, what is its new home)?
The “In Memorial” plaque was removed for safe keeping and is being held in
the JC Beaglehole Room on the Kelburn Campus.
You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of
this decision. Information about how to make a complaint is available at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800 802 602.
If you wish to discuss this decision with us, please feel free to contact me
at
[VUW request email].
Yours sincerely
Julia Marshall-Mead
Senior Advisor, Official Information and Privacy
Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington