title: 1833 in New Zealand
text: # 1833 in New Zealand
  
  The following lists events that happened during 1833 in New Zealand.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  ### Regal and viceregal
  
  * Head of State – King William IV
  * Governor of New South Wales – Major-General Sir Richard Bourke
  
  ### Government and law
  
  * British Resident in New Zealand – James Busby
  
  ## Events
  
  * 10 May – James Busby arrives in the Bay of Islands on HMS Imogene.
  * 16 May – James Busby meets 22 leading chiefs at Paihia and reads them a message from King William IV.
  * October/November
     * – Alfred Nesbitt Brown along with Henry Williams, John Morgan and William Fairburn visit the Thames Valley and reach Matamata.(see also 1834 & 1835)
  * November/December
     * – A mission is established at Puriri.
  
  ### Undated
  
  * The building of the house for James Busby is begun. After the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi there in 1840 it will be known as the Treaty House.
  * The keystone above the door of the Stone Store in Kerikeri is carved.
  * Late in the year Louisa, daughter of John and Elizabeth Guard, is born at Port Underwood. She is the first female European child born in the South Island.
  
  ## Births
  
  * 1 January (in Scotland): Robert Lawson, architect.
  * 27 January (in Australia): William Larnach, businessman, politician.
  * 31 May (in Scotland): David Boyle, 7th Earl of Glasgow, 14th Governor of New Zealand.
  * 14 September (in Scotland): John Bryce, politician.
  * 23 September (in England): William Hodgkins, artist and art historian.
  * 20 October (in England): Arthur Atkinson, politician.
  * undated (in Hokitika): Richard Hobbs, politician.
  