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Monument in Read's Quay, close to Peel Street bridge, was erected in memory of Margaret Home Sievwright (1844-1905) in recognition of her self-sacrificing work for the community over a long period of years. Mrs Sievwright trained as a nurse under Florence Nightingale and dedicated her life to the emancipation of women. She settled in Gisborne in 1883, and devoted herself to good works, her love of humanity amounting almost to a passion. She worked for the day when "united womanhood would stand for the extinction of poverty, ignorance, vice, crime, cruelty to man and beast, idleness, war, slavery, intemperance, and selfishness", to quote her own words. Mrs Sievwright formed the National Council of Women in New Zealand, and was dominion president for seven years.

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This unique lily was grown by Mr Parewhai Jensen, Wainui Road, Gisborne, last year. It reached a height of about six feet and bore over 82 blooms on a head surmounting a "fasciated" stem. There seems to be no known cause of this phenomenon of the fasciated stem. The variety in this case was Lilium formosanum. (Photograph supplied by H. Conway, Horticulturalist, Department of Maori Affairs.