Story: Trethewey, William Thomas

William Thomas Trethewey carving the Kaiapoi war memorial

Carving the Kaiapoi war memorial

Using a pantograph (the rods are visible around the head of the marble figure at right) William Trethewey copies details from the smaller plaster model to the larger sculpture.

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Jock Phillips. 'Trethewey, William Thomas', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1998. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/4t26/trethewey-william-thomas (accessed 19 April 2024)