[2] The Wellington Centennial Provincial Memorial building is located on the Petone (originally 'Pito-one', or 'end of the sandy beach') foreshore and memorialises the site where local Māori welcomed the first ship carrying organised British settlers to Wellington on 22 January 1840.

[6] Beginning in the mid 1930s, New Zealand's Labour-led government planned for the centennial celebrations to mark the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.

[7] A national competition was held to find the final design of the building, and the Wellington architect William Gray Young adjudicated.

The result of this letter was the depiction of Te Puni on the stained glass window extending his hand in welcome to the new settlers, represented by a suit-clad man and a woman carrying a child.

[9] The memorial was officially opened on 22 January 1940 in a ceremony led by Prime Minister Peter Fraser and Governor-General Lord Galway.

[11] While the project took place, contractors discovered the original tiled foot baths that swimmers had to walk through to get to changing rooms.