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From the SMITH database
- FAMOUS (or INFAMOUS) SMITHs in NEW ZEALAND

Frances Hagel SMITH (1877-1948) Missionary teacher, welfare worker
- from Rosemarie Smith. 'Smith, Frances Hagell - Biography', from the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand

Frances 'Fan' Hagel EVERY was born at Oamaru on 21 February 1877, the fifth of ten children of Henrietta JEFFREYS and her husband, Frederick EVERY, a builder and later farmer.
The Every children and their FULTON, JEFFREYS and VALPY cousins were the first New Zealand-born generation of these prominent Otago English settler families. However, Fan was raised in an atmosphere of genteel penury, her father often away searching for work and her mother quietly desperate about her children's welfare and dependent on the charity of her kin.

The family had an intense preoccupation with moral and spiritual matters, which was reflected in the involvement of the Everys with several evangelical Protestant denominations, especially Brethren, Wesleyan and Presbyterian.

With family assistance the Every daughters eventually had some secondary education at Waitaki Girls' High School, although in Fan's case, not until she was 17.
She matriculated at the age of 19, after attending for two years as a half-day pupil. Sisters Ruth and Mary trained as nurses; Fan's initial occupation is unknown.

About 1902 she began housekeeping for her uncle, J. H. Every, in Dunedin. She taught Sunday school at the Andersons Bay Presbyterian Church and became one of several women teachers to take up foreign mission service.
In 1909 she travelled to Canada to keep house for her Baptist minister brother, Frederick, and teach Canadian Indian schoolchildren near Winnipeg, Manitoba.

After travelling to England and the Continent, Fan Every returned to New Zealand to marry Ethelbert (Bert) Cann SMITH, a friend of her eldest brother, Jack. The wedding took place at Gore on 15 November 1911. Bert had a well-established legal practice in Gore and was a prominent Methodist and temperance worker. His standing in the community combined with her personal qualities and experiences gave Fan a status that enabled her to pursue her interests and promote her values for a more caring and Christian community.
She displayed a flair for leadership, and over the next 37 years played an important role in the expansion of women's organisations in the town, especially those for the welfare and education of women and children.

Her greatest commitments were to the English children's charity Dr Barnardo's Homes, which awarded her a Knight-Commander of the Distinguished Order of Waif-Service medal; and to the Gore branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of New Zealand, in which she held office almost continuously, including, for many years, that of Cradle Roll secretary. This involved working with mothers and children, offering advice and arranging activities to promote a code of moral education which emphasised abstaining from alcohol. She was also a member of the Gore branch of the Plunket Society; her sister, Mary, was its first nurse.

Fan Smith ensured that her three children ? particularly her daughter ? had educational opportunities. Her own hobbies included painting and singing lessons, a correspondence journalism course and a reading circle.

Afflicted by increasing deafness in her 40s, she struggled with cumbersome and unreliable hearing aids in order to maintain public duties and personal social contact. She took increasing solace in her art and achieved some competence in landscape painting in oils.

A deep religious faith informed Fan Smith's sense of social responsibility and a lifetime of voluntary community work. She was able to build on the example set by the older generations of women in her family, such as Catherine FULTON, in claiming a public role for women. She had advantages over many of them in that she married later in life, had fewer children, permanent household help, economic security and a better education. Gore women who remember her recall a thoughtful, kindly ? though reserved and intellectual ? woman whose example they respected.

She died at home on 1 November 1948, survived by two sons and a daughter. Her husband had died the year before.

From the SMITH database
- FAMOUS (or INFAMOUS) SMITHs in NEW ZEALAND

Elsie Smith (1881-1968) Nurse, Anglican deaconess and missionary
- from Huia Kirk. 'Smith, Elsie - Biography', from the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand

Elsie SMITH was born in Kingstone Lisle, Berkshire, England, on 8 September 1881, the daughter of Charles Collins SMITH, a farmer, and his wife, Mary Ann DANSE.
She was educated at Hemdean House School, Caversham. In the hope of becoming a medical missionary, she took a short training course as a nurse and completed the full theological training of the Church Missionary Society (CMS). She then trained as a general nurse at the Prince of Wales Hospital, London. At various stages her training was interrupted by ill health.

During the First World War she was sister in charge of the wards given over to military work.

After further nursing experience, Elsie Smith appeared before the CMS medical board, but was not passed as medically fit. She decided to join the Ranyard Nurses and for three years was in charge of the St George's Mission, Lambeth. On being advised to give up nursing for a while, she became a church worker: in Lambeth, then in Newcastle upon Tyne for five years, and in Halifax for a year.
At the end of this time she was deemed to be medically fit.

In 1926 she came to New Zealand, under the auspices of the Anglican church, to take up the position of matron at the recently opened Abbotsford Home for children in Waipawa, Hawke's Bay. However, she found she was unsuited to the work and in 1928 left to become deaconess at St Stephen's Church, Marton. She served in this district for two years.

In May 1930 Elsie Smith travelled up the Whanganui River to Koriniti, where she was to spend 33 years ministering as a nurse and missionary to Te Ati Haunui-a-Paparangi of the river's lower reaches, but mainly to Ngati Pamoana.
A church (named Pepara) had been constructed at Koriniti in 1920 to replace a previous one burnt during the Raetihi bush fires of 1918. 'Sister Elsie' lived in the mission house, adjacent to Pepara, which had been built in 1925 by Thomas CHADWICK and Tiaki WAITOKIA. In the 1930s Lord Bledisloe donated a dispensary and front bedroom.

Elsie Smith's district extended between Parikino and Pipiriki (a distance of 34 miles), and included Matahiwi, Ranana and Jerusalem. The river road, not opened until 1934, was unsealed, narrow and winding, frequently closed by slips. Sister Elsie travelled by foot, horse, bicyle, canoe and motor vehicle to attend to the spiritual and physical welfare of her people.

She always wore a navy-blue belted smock with a white collar, black stockings and boots or gumboots. Before long she was a familiar and welcome figure up and down the river.

On Sundays she rang the bell for church and played the organ. However, it was the custom of the river Maori not to allow a woman to speak on the marae or, in those days, to preach in church. The elders were adamant: they would stay away from services or close their church altogether rather than have this small, dominant and outspoken woman break their rules. Canon W. G. Williams from Putiki smoothed the way towards letting her speak in church by telling Ngati Pamoana about Smith and her work. Although resistance to her ministering was gradually overcome by the example she set, and by her willingness to work with and for the people, a few elders remained reluctant to attend meetings or services where she was speaking.

In 1934 Elsie Smith started a play group for local Maori children ? the first of its kind in the country and a forerunner of play centres. By 1935 she had begun an Anglican Maori boys' and girls' Bible class club, and had established the Koriniti branch of the Mothers' Union. Once the road was opened and district nurses began visiting the area, her nursing duties lessened and she was able to devote more time to the spiritual side of her work. A humble, cheerful, dedicated and dignified person, she fully deserved the tributes that were paid to her on her retirement in 1954. A year later she was made an MBE in recognition of her work, and in the late 1950s she was adopted as a member of Ngati Pamoana.

Following a visit to her English family in 1962, Smith returned to her home in Koriniti for a short while. In 1963 she went back to England, to nurse her sick brother.

She never married and died 4 May 1968 at Bradenham, Buckinghamshire

In 1970 a gathering of 300 people celebrated the 50th anniversary of Pepara Church, and witnessed the unveiling of a memorial river-stone cairn to Sister Elsie.

In 1972 a photograph of Elsie Smith with her friend Hinekohurangi Te TURE, in a frame made by master carver Kohe WEBSTER, was presented to the Wanganui Public Museum.

Sister Elsie is still remembered with affection by all who came in contact with her during her work as a missionary and a nurse.

read first the introduction to COROMANDEL VALLEY Cemetery

as at April 2011 there were 758 people interred in the
COROMANDEL VALLEY CEMETERY

- clicking the cemetery link (through the introduction link above) will reveal more information for every person, like their burial location and photos where available


the interments at Coromandel Valley cemetery:

1 - 146 ADAMS to CUMMING

147 - 447 DALL to McINTYRE

448 - 758 McKINNA to ZENI


448. McKINNA, Ethel Maud

449. McLEOD, Norman Royden Livingstone

450. McNAMARA, Eric James

451. McNAMARA, James
452. McNAMARA, James Stephen
453. McNamara, Robert James
454. McNAMARA, Sarah Elizabeth

455. McTAGGART, Elizabeth Helen
456. McTAGGART, Lachlan

457. MEATHERINGHAM, David
458. MEATHERINGHAM, David
459. MEATHERINGHAM, Elizabeth
460. MEATHERINGHAM, Joseph
461. MEATHERINGHAM, Martha

462. MERRETT, Jodie Emily

463. MIELL, Susan

464. MILLS, Eliza

465. MITCHELL, Leslie

466. MORLEY, E J
467. MORLEY, William
468. MORLEY, William Henry

469. MORRISON, Emily Louisa
470. MORRISON, James

471. MOSS, Irene

472. MOULDEN, David Gwynne
473. MOULDEN, Henry William
474. MOULDEN, Maureen Dawn
475. MOULDEN, Sylvia Clara
476. MOULDEN, Trevor Robert

477. MUNRO, J T
478. MUNRO, Jane

479. MURDOCH, Robert

480. MURRAY
481. MURRAY
482. MURRAY, Alexander
483. MURRAY, Alexander Ronald
484. MURRAY, Elizabeth, Mrs
485. MURRAY, Ethel Maud
486. MURRAY, James Gordon
487. MURRAY, Jean Eliza
488. MURRAY, Jessie Mildred
489. MURRAY, Peter Albany
490. MURRAY, Plaida

491. NANKERVIS, Ethel
492. NANKERVIS, Henry Carmen
493. NANKERVIS, Mabel Mary
494. NANKERVIS, Thomas

495. NASH, Kathleen Gwen
496. NASH, Whitworth George

497. NEATE, Ralph, Mrs

498. NEWCOMBE, Alfred
499. NEWCOMBE, Sarah

500. NICOL, Anne
501. NICOL, Margaret Rofe

502. NICOLLE, Arnold
503. NICOLLE, Coral Avis
504. NICOLLE, Doris Linda
505. NICOLLE, Emma Augusta
506. NICOLLE, Helen
507. NICOLLE, John
508. NICOLLE, John Percival
509. NICOLLE, Norman
510. NICOLLE, Stanley Vernon

511. OLIVER, Elizabeth, Mrs
512. OLIVER, Norman Errol

513. O'MALLEY, Patrick King Douglas

514. OVERBEEKE, Hendrick Cornelius

515. PAGE, Anthony Edward
516. PAGE, Mary Agnes

517. PAINTER, Joy

518. PALTRIDGE, Francis Evelyn

519. PARKIN, Millicent
520. PARKIN, W, Mrs
521. PARKIN, William T

522. PATTISON, George
523. PATTISON, Jane Ann
524. PATTISON, John George
525. PATTISON, Walter Robert

526. PAUL, Susanna Widger

527. PAYNTER, Minnie Jean

528. PENNO, A G
529. PENNO, Arthur James
530. PENNO, Arthur Robert
531. PENNO, Eliza Hannah

532. PEPPER, Leslie

533. PHILLIPS, Ambrose Charles

534. PILLAR, Sydney Clarence

535. PLACE, Annie Evelyn

536. PLUMRIDGE, Reginald Arundel Wallace Smith

537. POTTER, Agnes Mary
538. POTTER, Ralph Beeching

539. POTTINGER, Elizabeth Eveline

540. PRICE, Cardella

551. ROBERTSON, Lilias

552. ROFE, Herbert Henry
553. ROFE, Marjorie Caroline

554. ROOKS, Mrs

555. ROWLAND, Emma
556. ROWLAND, J, Mrs
557. ROWLAND, Jane
558. ROWLAND, John James
559. ROWLAND, William Henry

560. RUSSELL, Mark Douglas

561. RUTTER, Clarence

562. RYAN, J G

563. SANDERSON, Robert Stanley

564. SARGENT, James Fredrick

565. SCHERER, Carl Philip
566. SCHERER, Caroline Teresa Amelia
567. SCHERER, Mrs
568. SCHOBER, Annie D
569. SCHOBER, Johann Carl

570. SCROOP
571. SCROOP, Alton L
572. SCROOP, Ann
573. SCROOP, Daphne Muriel
574. SCROOP, Ethel Marabel
575. SCROOP, Fredrick Oscar
576. SCROOP, Harry
577. SCROOP, J H
578. SCROOP, James
579. SCROOP, Jane
580. SCROOP, Percy George
581. SCROOP, Robert William
582. SCROOP, Sarah Jane
583. SCROOP, William

584. SHARP, Harold George
585. SHARP, Violet Florence

586. SHEIDOW, John
587. SHEIDOW, Mary

588. SHEPLEY

589. SINCLAIR, Gwendoline Adelaide

590. SLATER, Ethel Rose

591. SMITH, Ellen Eva
592. SMITH, George
593. SMITH, Jacob Adam
594. SMITH, Mary Ellen
595. SMITH, Muriel, Mrs
596. SMITH, Ralph
597. SMITH, Sarah Ann

598. SOUTH, Evelyn Dorothy
599. SOUTH, Leslie Moncrief Webb
600. SOUTH, Peter Moncreif

601. SPURR, Ada Mary
602. SPURR, John

603. STEER
604. STEER, Mary Jane
605. STEER, Phillip Charles
606. STEER, Sidney

607. STERRY, Agnes Mary
608. STERRY, John

609. STEWART, Albert
610. STEWART, Dorothy Margaret
611. STEWART, John McKellar
612. STEWART, Margaret Grace Stuart McKellar

613. STOCKLEY, Elizabeth

614. SULLIVAN
615. SULLIVAN, Harold
616. SULLIVAN, Harriet
617. SULLIVAN, Mrs
618. SULLIVAN, William Louis

619. SYMES, William James

620. THILP

621. THISELTON, Mary B

622. THORNE, Charles

623. THORP, Annie, Mrs
624. THORP, J H
625. THORP, John Henry
626. THORP, Mary Annie

627. TIETZEL, Peter Andrew

628. TILBROOK, Gwen M, Mrs

629. TILLER, Elizabeth Rose

630. TOOTH, Thora Mary

631. TOPHAM, Conrad V
632. TOPHAM, Mary

633. TRAPLIN

634. TRELOAR, Elizabeth Jessie
635. TRELOAR, John Samuel

636. TRIPP,
637. TRIPP, William H

638. TROTT, Elder Kenneth, Snr
639. TROTT, George
640. TROTT, Mary Annie Beatrice
641. TROTT, Tessa Gertrude

642. TURNER
643. TURNER
644. TURNER, Bessie
645. TURNER, Emma
646. TURNER, Fred
647. TURNER, Hartley
648. TURNER, Isaac
649. TURNER, Joseph
650. TURNER, Mary
651. TURNER, R
652. TURNER, Sarah
653. TURNER, Thomas
654. TURNER, William

655. TYLER, Alice

656. VANDERWERP, Gerrit

657. VICKERY, Lawrence R
658. VICKERY, Reginald

659. WADE, Bertha
660. WADE, Mary

661. WADE, Robert

662. WAIT
663. WAIT
664. WAIT, Annie
665. WAIT, Elizabeth
666. WAIT, Harold Frederick
667. WAIT, Mary
668. WAIT, Walter
669. WAIT, William
670. WAIT, William

671. WALSH, George

672. WALTERS, Lindly Dorothy

673. WARD, Frederick
674. WARD, Mary

675. WATCHMAN, Ada Jane
676. WATCHMAN, Ada Jane
677. WATCHMAN, Alfred
678. WATCHMAN, Elizabeth
679. WATCHMAN, Ethel Clarice
680. WATCHMAN, Fred
681. WATCHMAN, Glen Mayger
682. WATCHMAN, Isaac
683. WATCHMAN, Leonie Jane
684. WATCHMAN, Nancy Isobel
685. WATCHMAN, Robert George
686. WATCHMAN, Robert Lawrence
687. WATCHMAN, Virginia May
688. WATCHMAN, Walter Stanley

689. WATERS, Albert
690. WATERS, Selina

691. WEBB
692. WEBB, Adelaide

693. WEBBER, Harriet Beatrice

694. WELFARE, S M

695. WELSH, Lorna Adelaide

696. WESCOMBE, Bernice Maud
697. WESCOMBE, Jeanette
698. WESCOMBE, Lawrence Hill

699. WESTLEY nee CONSTABLE, Myrtle

700. WESTON, Edith Mary
701. WESTON, Percy

702. WEYMOUTH, Doris
703. WEYMOUTH, Gerald Peter
704. WEYMOUTH, infants
705. WEYMOUTH, Jane
706. WEYMOUTH, Jane
707. WEYMOUTH, John
708. WEYMOUTH, John
709. WEYMOUTH, John
710. WEYMOUTH, John
711. WEYMOUTH, Lizzie
712. WEYMOUTH, Lydia
713. WEYMOUTH, Mary Ann
714. WEYMOUTH, William

715. WHITAKER, John L

716. WHITE, Alfred Thomas
717. WHITE, Alma Rose

718. WICKENS, Charles Eric
719. WICKENS, Charlotte
720. WICKENS, Joanna
721. WICKENS, Margaret Perry
722. WICKENS, W
723. WICKENS, W H

724. WICKS, Olive Bethel

725. WILLIAMSON nee REMNANT, Lucy

726. WINN, Alfred Walter
727. WINN, Alice
728. WINN, Beatrice Virginia
729. WINN, Daisy Agnes
730. WINN, Donald Bruce
731. WINN, Dorothy Jean
732. WINN, Emily Jane
733. WINN, Emma Rebecca
734. WINN, Harry Noel
735. WINN, Hartley Wilford
736. WINN, Hector Oliver
737. WINN, Henry Gilbert
738. WINN, Herbert John
739. WINN, Hilda Mary
740. WINN, Irene
741. WINN, Jane
742. WINN, Jessamine Mary
743. WINN, Laurie Walter
744. WINN, Lorna Olive
745. WINN, Margaret Matilda
746. WINN, Oliver
747. WINN, Richard
748. WINN, Richard Norman
749. WINN, Sarah
750. WINN, Sylvia Helen Lucy
751. WINN, Virginia
752. WINN, Walter William
753. WINN, Yvonne Crase
754. WOODS, Jean Muriel

755. YEO, E K, Mrs

756. YOUNG, Desmond Philip
757. YOUNG, Owen William

758. ZENI, Luke

To assist a reader with an enquiry the following site is on assisted Immigrants arriving in:

* Sydney
- In 1770, British sea Captain Lieutenant James Cook landed in Botany Bay on the Kurnell Peninsula. It is here that Cook made first contact with an Aboriginal community known as the Gweagal.
Under instruction from the British government, a convict settlement was founded by Arthur Phillip, who arrived at Botany Bay with a fleet of 11 ships on 18 January 1788. This site was soon determined to be unsuitable for habitation, owing to poor soil and a lack of reliable fresh water. Phillip subsequently founded the colony one inlet further up the coast, at Sydney Cove on Port Jackson on 26 January 1788. He named it after the British Home Secretary, Thomas Townshend, Lord Sydney, in recognition of Sydney's role in issuing the charter authorising Phillip to establish a colony. The original name was intended to be Albion until Phillip decided upon Sydney

* Newcastle
- The first European to explore the area was Lieutenant John Shortland in September 1797. His discovery of the area was largely accidental; as he had been sent in search of a number of convicts who had seized the HMS Cumberland as she was sailing from Sydney Cove.

While returning, Lt. Shortland entered what he later described as "a very fine river", which he named after New South Wales' Governor, John Hunter. He returned with reports of the deep-water port and the area's abundant coal. Over the next two years, coal mined from the area was the New South Wales colony's first export.

Newcastle gained a reputation as a "hellhole" as it was a place where the most dangerous convicts were sent to dig in the coal mines as harsh punishment for their crimes.

By the turn of the century the mouth of the Hunter River was being visited by diverse groups of men, including coal diggers, timber-cutters, and more escaped convicts. Philip Gidley King, the Governor of New South Wales from 1800, decided on a more positive approach to exploit the now obvious natural resources of the Hunter Valley.

In 1801, a convict camp called King's Town (named after Governor King) was established to mine coal and cut timber. In the same year, the first shipment of coal was dispatched to Sydney.
This settlement closed less than a year later.

A settlement was again attempted in 1804, as a place of secondary punishment for unruly convicts. The settlement was named Coal River, also Kingstown and then re-named Newcastle, after England's famous coal port. The name first appeared by the commission issued by Governor King on 15 March 1804 to Lieutenant Charles Menzies of the marine detachment on HMS Calcutta, then at Port Jackson, appointing him superintendent of the new settlement.

The new settlement, comprising convicts and a military guard, arrived at the Hunter River on 27 March 1804 in three ships: HMS Lady Nelson, the Resource and the James.
The convicts were rebels from the 1804 Castle Hill convict rebellion.

The link with Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, its namesake and also from whence many of the 19th century coal miners came, is still obvious in some of the place-names ? such as Jesmond, Hexham, Wickham, Wallsend and Gateshead. Morpeth, New South Wales is a similar distance north of Newcastle as Morpeth, Northumberland is north of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.


* Moreton Bay
- (Aboriginal name - Quandamooka) and its islands were inhabited by Aboriginal tribes. The name Morton's Bay was given by Captain Cook when he passed the area on 15 May 1770, honouring Lord Morton, president of the Royal Society. The spelling Moreton was an error in the first published account of Cook's voyage (Hawkesworth's Voyages.
Cook gave the name only to the bight formed by the northern end of Stradbroke Island (in 1770, there was only one island) and the eastern side of Moreton Island. He was unaware of the South Passage (as it's now called) between the two islands, and did not sail into what is the present Moreton Bay.


* Port Phillip
- Lieutenant James Grant was the first known European to pass through Bass Strait from west to east, in the Lady Nelson. He was also the first to see and chart the south coast of Victoria from Cape Nelson to Western Port. Grant also discovered Port Phillip and named it Governor King?s Bay 8/12/1800. The first Europeans to enter Port Phillip, were the crew of the Lady Nelson, commanded by John Murray, which entered the bay on 15 February 1802. Murray called the bay Port King after the Governor of New South Wales, Philip Gidley King, but King later renamed it Port Phillip, in honour of his predecessor Arthur Phillip.

About ten weeks after Murray, Matthew Flinders in the Investigator also found and entered the port, unaware Murray had been there.
The official history of Nicholas Baudin's explorations in Le G?ographe claimed they too had sighted the entrance at that time (30 March 1802) but this is almost certainly a later embellishment or error, being absent from the ship's logs and Baudin's own accounts.
As a result of Murray's and Flinders' reports, King sent Lieutenant Charles Robbins in the Cumberland to explore Port Phillip fully. One of his party, Charles Grimes, became the first European to walk right round the bay, and thus to discover the mouth of the Yarra, on 2 February 1803


The term 'assisted immigrant' refers to those people whose passage was subsidised or paid for through one of the several assisted immigration schemes which operated to New South Wales from the United Kingdom and other countries

... [url=http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/state-archives/indexes-online/indexes-to-immigration-and-shipping-records/indexes-to-assisted-immigrants]Indexes

- The Index covers all of the ports below but you can also search them separately:
* Port Phillip, 1839-51
* Sydney and Newcastle, 1844-59
* Moreton Bay (Brisbane), 1848-59
* Sydney, 1860-79
* Sydney, 1880-96
They hold records of assisted immigrants from 1828-1896 to NSW which can provide valuable information such as native place and parents' names.
- Their family history page on Immigration includes examples of various shipping records, useful tips and 'how to' worksheets to help you search for arrivals to New South Wales and includes:
* Asylum records
* BDMs
* Convicts
* Convict Settlement - Norfolk Island
* Immigration
* Land records
* Railway employee records (+ General Strike of 1917)
* Women in the records
- they also have an index to vessels arriving in Sydney, 1837-1925

that site is also mentioned in the journal CONVICTS of AUSTRALIA

From the SMITH database
- FAMOUS (or INFAMOUS) SMITHs in NEW ZEALAND

Edward Metcalf SMITH (1839-1907) Armourer, ironsands entrepreneur, politician
- from Ron Lambert. 'Smith, Edward Metcalf - Biography', from the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand


Edward Metcalf SMITH was born probably on 10 January 1839 at Bradley, Staffordshire, England, the son of Charles SMITH, a monumental sculptor and his wife Maria JOINER. He began work in the local iron industry and several years later became apprentice gunsmith at the Royal Small Arms factories of London and Enfield and then at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich.

On qualifying, Edward Smith was appointed garrison armourer to the New Zealand field forces. He arrived in Auckland on the African in 1861. There, on 24 December that year, he married 16-year-old Mary Ann Golding, the daughter of Nicholas GOLDING, an army officer.

Smith went to England in 1864 but returned soon after to live in Taranaki with his wife and her family. He established a gunsmithing business in Devon Street, New Plymouth, and also accepted the position of armourer to the Taranaki Militia and Taranaki Rifle Volunteers. After several years he took up a similar post in the Defence Department at Wellington.

Edward Smith's association with the steel industry in his early years stimulated his long-term quest to found a viable iron industry using Taranaki ironsand; he was nicknamed 'Ironsand' as a consequence.
In 1868 he and his partners, Decimus ATKINSON and John PERRY announced an experimental process for smelting ironsand. Smith continued refining the process during his years with the Defence Department in Wellington, but in 1873 he resigned his position to return to Taranaki. There he founded his major venture, the Titanic Iron and Steel Company; the company's smelter was built at Te Henui, New Plymouth, in the mid 1870s. However, the translation from experimentation to commercial viability was never fully achieved ? the process was too costly for there to be a profit ? and the company was wound up in 1881.

Nevertheless, Smith continued his boosting of the industry and became involved as a consultant in a smelting venture at Onehunga, Auckland, in 1892. In 1896 and again in 1901 he went to Britain in an unsuccessful attempt to obtain support for further research and development.

Smith entered politics in the 1880s. He unsuccessfully contested the New Plymouth electorate for the Liberals in 1884 and in 1887, and was finally returned as MHR for Taranaki in 1890. He held this seat, except for the 1896?99 term, until his death in 1907.
Smith was remembered for his unconventional attire ? frock-coat, wide waistcoat, large buttonhole and tam-o'-shanter (when out of doors) ? and his habit of concluding speeches with comic lines of verse, sometimes of his own composition.

Edward Smith died on 19 April 1907 as the result of injuries received after he fell from a railway carriage in New Plymouth. He was survived by seven sons and three daughters. His wife Mary Ann died in New Plymouth on 31 August 1923. Their son, Sydney George Smith, had by then become MP for Taranaki.

... if you know who his children were please leave a comment, it would be great to add them to this journal

almost 3600 men served overseas with the Maori Battalion 1940-1945
of those, 649 were killed or died of wounds while another 1,712 were wounded. Another 29 died as a result of service following discharge

read the INTRODUCTION to the 28th MAORI BATTALION

every soldier of the 28th has further information and photos, where available, at the site: BATTALION ROLL

many 28th Battalion soldiers used alternative names or were known by both Maori and English versions of their names; these are recorded where known - their address is where they were at time of enlistment

see also 28th MAORI BATTALION on Facebook
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ABRAHAM to AWATERE .. BABBINGTON to BUTLER .. CAIRNS to CURTIS
DANIELS to DYER .. EDMONDS to EVANS .. FACOOREY to FROST
GAGE to GUNSON .. HAAMI to HENARE .. HENDERSON to HUTANA
IHAIA to JURY .. KAA to KEWEN .. KIDWELL to KUTIA
LAMBERT to LUMSDEN .. MAAKA to MAUHENI .. MAUI to MUTU
NAERA to OTIMI .. PAAKA to PAWA .. PEACHEY to PUTARANUI
RAERENGA to REWIRI .. RIA to RYLAND .. SADD to SYLVIA
TAARE to TAYLOR .. Te ANO to TUTU .. UATUKU to VERCOE
WAA to WEBSTER .. WEEPU to YOUNG

* indicates he died for his country
* NOK - next of kin
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From the SMITH database
- FAMOUS (or INFAMOUS) SMITHs in NEW ZEALAND


David Stanley SMITH (1888-1982) - Lawyer, judge, educationalist
- from G. P. Barton. 'Smith, David Stanley - Biography', from the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand and includes his photo


David Stanley Smith was born in Dunedin on 11 February 1888, the first child of John Gibson SMITH, a Presbyterian minister, and his wife, Ann GIBB. His primary education began in Dunedin, but was completed at the Middle School, Invercargill, where his father had become the minister of the First Presbyterian Church. After a period as a pupil at Southland Boys? High School, David Smith moved with his family to Wellington in 1903 and completed his secondary education at Wellington College the following year.

In 1905 he enrolled for the LLB degree at Victoria College and studied full time for the next two years. In 1907 he was employed as a clerk with Findlay, Dalziell and Company, continuing his studies part-time; he graduated in 1909. Smith took a large part in student life, particularly in debating, tennis, hockey and athletics, and became president of the students? association.

Shortly after his admission on 4 March 1910 as a barrister and solicitor, Smith was offered a partnership with D. M. Findlay, who had started in practice on his own. However, there was insufficient work for two partners, and in 1912 Smith left to join C. B. Morison as an employed assistant. At the same time he continued his law studies as an extramural student for an LLM, graduating at the end of that year. The association with Morison proved to be successful, and when Morison became a King?s counsel (while retaining the right to practise as a solicitor), he offered Smith a partnership. Both men were enthusiastic and assiduous workers, but Smith was more methodical and efficient and did not share Morison?s impatience with detail. The partnership gave Smith an entr?e to Maori land law practice, in which the firm specialised, as well as to company law, on which Morison was a leading exponent.

On the outbreak of the First World War Smith?s professional and personal responsibilities prevented his enlisting for overseas service immediately, as he wanted to do. As the eldest of a family of seven children he was expected, in view of his father?s ill health, to undertake responsibility for his mother and her dependent children. The law practice was short staffed, making it difficult for Smith to leave the ageing Morison on his own.

Smith married Eva Jane CUMMING on 23 November 1915 in Auckland and their daughter was born in October 1916, but only a few months later Eva died while undergoing abdominal surgery.

Because of Morison?s ill health Smith was given leave to keep the practice afloat. He had enlisted in December 1916, but it was not until July 1918 that (with the rank of sergeant) he left New Zealand with the 40th Reinforcements on the troopship Tahiti. He did not see active service: having succumbed to a shipboard influenza epidemic en route to Britain, he spent a long period convalescing in England.
He returned to New Zealand in September 1919 and set out to re-establish the firm.
He married Margaret Elizabeth GIBBS at Wellington on 25 January 1923; they were to have one son.

Smith?s main areas of legal work were Maori land law, appearances before parliamentary committees, and general civil litigation. He never allowed his legal practice to absorb his entire energies. Even before he had gone overseas he had assisted in establishing the New Zealand Returned Soldiers? Association and had drafted its constitution. On his return he became the chairman of the executive committee and represented the association before a commission established to determine the kind of war pensions appeal board that should be established. He also immersed himself in international affairs, having been closely associated with the Round Table group set up in 1909 to study imperial affairs; he continued as its secretary after the war.

Smith also joined the Institute of Pacific Relations and the Institute of International Relations. As a rare honour he was designated, on the nomination of the United States government, as an American non-national member of an international peace commission provided for in the 1914 treaty between Peru and the United States. That commission was never convened, but the designation was a signal recognition of his reputation as an internationalist.

Smith?s appointment as a judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand on 26 April 1928 could hardly be described as long awaited. His practice had not been particularly wide ranging, nor had he appeared frequently as counsel in the Court of Appeal. But he had shown outstanding qualities as counsel for Maori claimants before the royal commission that sat under the chairmanship of Sir William Sim in 1927 to inquire into the confiscation of Maori land. Partly as a result of Smith?s submissions, the commission found that the wars in Taranaki and Waikato were unjustified. His handling of the brief made a deep impression, and was widely believed to be the reason for the offer of a judicial appointment.

Smith quickly proved himself to be an excellent judge: patient, considerate, thoughtful and efficient. He took a broad view of the judicial function, seeing it in philosophical terms as a profoundly important aspect of the body politic. During the depression he would have agreed to a voluntary reduction in judicial salaries, notwithstanding the constitutional arguments that were advanced against such a reduction as being inconsistent with judicial independence; the majority of his fellow judges thought otherwise. He was also in a minority in his support for a Court of Appeal whose members were appointed for the purpose from among the judges of the Supreme Court.

While a judge he was appointed to take part in two commissions of inquiry: in 1934, on the administration of the Native Department (which led to the resignation of the minister, Apirana Ngata); and in 1945, on the liquor licensing industry.

Smith was knighted in January 1948 and resigned from the Bench on 31 May. Apart from a brief reappointment as a judge on 8 July 1949, he thereafter devoted himself to public affairs. He was chairman of the Board of Trade from 1950 to 1959.

Smith had a lifelong commitment to university education. He was a member of the Victoria University College Council from 1939 to 1945, when he became chancellor of the University of New Zealand. During his tenure that was no mere honorific office. He played a leading role in a critical examination of the university system, and was an eloquent supporter of proposals for the establishment of a university grants committee, a university research committee, and a curriculum committee. He strongly favoured the devolution of academic functions to the constituent university colleges, leading to the ultimate dissolution of the University of New Zealand in 1961.

As chancellor he delivered many addresses on university education, showing a strong liberal stance and a deep concern for the value of tertiary education in the life of the community. He retained a long association with the WEA from its foundation in 1915, and was an examiner in law for the University of New Zealand from 1920 to 1927. For his contribution to university education, honorary doctorates were conferred on him by the Universities of Oxford (1948) and New Zealand (1961). He was a member of the Board of the United States Educational Foundation in New Zealand, and in 1956 was a member of a New Zealand delegation that visited universities in the Soviet Union.

Smith also devoted himself to various philanthropic causes: he was a longtime supporter of the New Zealand Crippled Children Society, becoming its first president (1935?39); served as an executive member of the New Zealand Alliance for the Abolition of the Liquor Trade (1921?22); and was the first president of Heritage (1942?54).

David Smith was humane and thoughtful, fired by high ideals and deeply sensitive to the wider philosophical implications of legal and judicial work. He had a broad sympathy for Maori and their aspirations. After Margaret Smith?s death in 1954 he lived on his own, but with the help of a housekeeper was able to continue to offer hospitality to friends and family alike. He was a vivid raconteur, an excellent host, widely read and of broad interests.

David Smith died at Wellington on 29 December 1982, survived by his daughter and son.

read first the introduction to COROMANDEL VALLEY Cemetery

as at April 2011 there were 758 people interred in the
COROMANDEL VALLEY CEMETERY

- clicking the cemetery link (through the introduction link above) will reveal more information for every person, like their burial location and photos where available


the interments at Coromandel Valley cemetery:

1 - 146 ADAMS to CUMMING

147 - 447 DALL to McINTYRE

448 - 758 McKINNA to ZENI


147. DALL
148. DALL
149. DALL
150. DALL, Annie Maria
151. DALL, Elizabeth
152. DALL, Jemima
153. DALL, Joseph
154. DALL, Robert
155. DALL, Sarah Ann
156. DALL, Walter H

157. DALY, Ronald Hack

158. DARWIN

159. DAVEY, W

160. DAVIES, David
161. DAVIES, Mary Gwenelian

162. DEARING, Nigel Stuart
163. DEERING, Bettie Violet
164. DEERING, Bruce Samuel
165. DEERING, Terence James

166. DIXON, James S

167. DONALDSON, Eliza Jane
168. DONALDSON, George
169. DONALDSON, Jessie
170. DONALDSON, Peter Lawson Murray

171. DRISCOLL, Adelaide Sarah
172. DRISCOLL, John Bertram Halliday

173. DRUCE, Victor Herbert

174. DUBERAL, Cyril James

175. DUNCAN, Catherine

176. DUNN
177. DUNN, Mrs

178. EASTON, Lilly Ada May
179. EASTON, Pearl Doreen
180. EASTON, Reuben Peter
181. EASTON, Roy William

182. EDMONDS
183. EDMONDS, Alfred George John
184. EDMONDS, Alfred William
185. EDMONDS, Alwyn Clive
186. EDMONDS, E M, Mrs
187. EDMONDS, Eva M
188. EDMONDS, Evelyn
189. EDMONDS, Freda
190. EDMONDS, Frederick Reginald
191. EDMONDS, Gweneth Thelma
192. EDMONDS, Mary Jane, Mrs
193. EDMONDS, Merle
194. EDMONDS, R

195. EDWARDS, Marguerite Jessie
196. EDWARDS, William Charles

197. EKINS, Justin Gray
198. EKINS, Monica

199. ELLIOTT, Cornelius
200. ELLIOTT, Isabella
201. ELLIOTT, Joan

202. ELSEGOOD
203. ELSEGOOD, Esther
204. ELSEGOOD, Thomas

205. ELWORTHY, Florence Amelia
206. ELWORTHY, Lucy Frances Hilda

207. FAVAN, Eliza

208. FINNIS, Margaret McKellar

209. FLANNAGAN
210. FLANNAGAN

211. FORD, Raymond

212. FOUBERT, Colette Michelle

213. FRANK

214. FRENCH, S C

215. FUTVOYE, Sarah Ann

216. GAMBLE, Allen Roy
217. GAMBLE, Bellina
218. GAMBLE, Clara Louisa
219. GAMBLE, Hariett Victoria
220. GAMBLE, Hilda Emma
221. GAMBLE, Jane, Mrs
222. GAMBLE, Joseph
223. GAMBLE, Susannah
224. GAMBLE, Thomas
225. GAMBLE, Thomas Roy
226. GAMBLE, William
227. GAMBLE, William

228. GILES, Alice Maud
229. GILES, Florence Eliza
230. GILES, George
231. GILES, James David

232. GOLDSACK, Mavis Annie

233. GRIFFITHS, William J

234. GRIMES, Frederick William

235. GRUNERT, Raymond Charles

236. GUNN, J M

237. GUTHBERLET, Annie
238. GUTHBERLET, Robert Charles

239. HACK, Barton
240. HACK, Charles
241. HACK, Edward Percy
242. HACK, Ethelwyn Marie
243. HACK, Frank Barton
244. HACK, Mary Mabel
245. HACK, Rosa Ethel
246. HACK, Rosina
247. HACK, Theodore Charles

248. HALL
249. HALL nee SCROOP, Mary Elizabeth
250. HALL, Albert Ernest
251. HALL, Ann Elizabeth
252. HALL, Annie
253. HALL, Annie
254. HALL, Arthur Leslie
255. HALL, Charles
256. HALL, Charles Edgar
257. HALL, Elizabeth
258. HALL, Enoch T
259. HALL, George Thomas
260. HALL, Jack William
261. HALL, James
262. HALL, Joseph
263. HALL, Lawrence Bert
264. HALL, Leonard
265. HALL, Maria, Mrs
266. HALL, Mark
267. HALL, Martha Ann
268. HALL, Mary
269. HALL, Minnie
270. HALL, Ocee Matilda, Miss
271. HALL, Violet Evelyn
272. HALL, William Leonard
273. HALL, Winnifred Maud

274. HALLS, Archibald (Snowy)
275. HALLS, Lois Katherine Treble

276. HALPIN, Ellen Teressa
277. HALPIN, James

278. HANRAHAN, Doreen

279. HARCOURT, Thomas

280. HARGREAVES, Graham Morris

281. HARRISON
282. HARRISON
283. HARRISON, George Leslie
284. HARRISON, Rosemary Frances

285. HARVEY, Eleanor

286. HAYES
287. HAYES

288. HEALY, William

289. HEAYSMAN, Arthur
290. HEAYSMAN, Mrs

291. HEWETT
292. HEWETT, Albert Ernest
293. HEWETT, Albert Henry
294. HEWETT, Alice Ann
295. HEWETT, Daniel John
296. HEWETT, Helena
297. HEWETT, J
298. HEWETT, John Whinnen
299. HEWETT, Lorna Isabelle
300. HEWETT, May
301. HEWETT, Patricia Mary
302. HEWETT, R A (Bob)
303. HEWETT, R H
304. HEWETT, Ruth Rubina
305. HEWETT, William Alfred

306. HICKS, Arthur Lindsay Gordon
307. HICKS, Constance May

308. HILL
309. HILL, Agnes Hilda Jane
310. HILL, Annie
311. HILL, Florrie Jane
312. HILL, George
313. HILL, Hayden Leonard P
314. HILL, Jeffrey Charles
315. HILL, Lindsay Harold
316. HILL, Martha Reta
317. HILL, Nellie Spavould
318. HILL, Stanley Ross
319. HILL, Walter Newton

320. HILTON, Eliza
321. HILTON, J W

322. HOCKING, Keith Percival
323. HOCKING, Mary Warren

324. HOGAN, Dennis Cornelius
325. HOGAN, Margaret

326. HOLLARD nee BARTLETT, Elizabeth
327. HOLLARD, E
328. HOLLARD, Emanuel

329. HOLMES, Stanley Brian

330. HOPKINS, Joan

331. HORNER, Emily
332. HORNER, H

333. HOWARD, Barbara Helen
334. HOWARD, John Eugene Donald

335. HUNT
336. HUNT, Henry

337. HYDE, Michael Kenneth

338. INGAMELLS, G C
339. INGAMELLS, Sydney Howard

340. JAMES, Eleanor Jane
341. JAMES, Thomas
342. JAMES, Thomas
343. JAMES, Thomas, Mrs

344. JARVIS

345. JEFFERSON
346. JEFFERSON, Francis

347. JENNER, Eric

348. JOHNSON
349. JOHNSON, James
350. JOHNSON, Sylvia

361. JONES, Eric Albert
362. JONES, Frederick Wallace
363. JONES, Harriet M
364. JONES, Helena May
365. JONES, Ivy May
366. JONES, Stewart Keith
367. JONES, Walter Stewart
368. JONES, William Archibald
369. JONES, William Victor

370. KELSEY

371. KEMP, Ronald David

372. KENT, Margaret Alice
373. KENT, Sidney Arthur

374. KENWRICK, Dorothy
375. KENWRICK, William Charles

376. KENYON, Rosina Martha

377. KERNOTT, Hurd

378. KILLORAN, Helen June

379. KINNEAR, Colin

380. KIRBY, Olive Rose

381. KIRKHAM, Alick Lindsay

382. KIRSCH, Ernest
383. KIRSCH, Ludmilla

384. KNIPE, Donovan Henry Malcolm

385. KOHL, Helmut Johan
386. KOHL, John

387. LANE, John Langdon

388. LANGFORD, Charlotte

389. LAURIE, Ida Helen Hurman

390. LAW, Frederick George

391. LE MESURIER, Kathleen M

392. LEACH, Robert Henry

393. LEWIS, Myrtle Ellen

394. LIGHT, Jane
395. LIGHT, John Lloyd

396. LINAHAN, Lylie Beatrice
397. LINAHAN, William Eugene

398. LINES, Arthur Frederick

399. LLOYD, Ada Vera
400. LLOYD, Benjamin Furney
401. LLOYD, Lucy

402. LOWE, Jamesina
403. LOWE, William

404. LOYNES
405. LOYNES

406. LYNE, Hannibal
407. LYNE, Rosa Irene Naomi
408. LYNE, Rosa Jane

409. MAAG, Alwina Bruse
410. MAAG, Jacob Nissen
411. MAAG, Melba
412. MAAG, Sarah Lydia
413. MAAG, Victor Jacob

414. MABELSON

415. MACKERETH
416. MACKERETH, Elsie May
417. MACKERETH, Eva Mary
418. MACKERETH, Frederick
419. MACKERETH, Hilda Croft
420. MACKERETH, James
421. MACKERETH, James Clifford
422. MACKERETH, Mary Ann

423. MACROW, F
424. MACROW, F


425. MADDERN, Eileen
426. MADDERN, John Alexander Stuart

427. MAGAREY, Ashley David
428. MAGAREY, Roger Farrer
429. MAGAREY, Rosemary

430. MARLES, William Hector Donald

431. MARTIN
432. MARTIN, Ernest W N
433. MARTIN, Marjorie M W

434. MATHEWS, Susan

435. MATSON, Fred
436. MATSON, Hannah

437. MATTHEWS, F
438. MATTHEWS, Harriet Hurd
439. MATTHEWS, John
440. MATTHEWS, John
441. MATTHEWS, Merembena McGregor
442. MATTHEWS, Rhoda
443. MATTHEWS, Thomas

444. McDONALD, Alexander
445. McDONALD, Edith Marion
446. McDONALD, Mary

447. McINTYRE, John

From the SMITH database
- FAMOUS (or INFAMOUS) SMITHs in New Zealand

Stephenson Percy SMITH Percy Smith (as he was known) was born in 11 June 1840 at Beccles, Suffolk, the eldest son of Hannah HURSTHOUSE and John Stephenson Smith, a merchant and later a civil servant.

Smith emigrated to New Zealand with his family in February 1850. Percy Smith

He attended school at New Plymouth and later Omata, leaving to help on the family farm in 1854. Interested in the natural world and the landscape of the Taranaki region, Smith took lessons in painting from John GULLY, a landscape artist.

In 1855, aged 14, he joined the provincial survey department, helping to survey the land around New Plymouth, spending long periods in the bush and coming into frequent contact with Maori. Following two years of training, he was made assistant surveyor.

While still in his teens he began a series of expeditions in his spare time, joining a party to scale Mount Taranaki in 1857, for example and undertaking a journey in 1858 up the Mokau River to Taupo, Lakes Rotomahana and Tarawera, the Tongariro-Ruapehu area, returning via Rangitikei and Wanganui.
This expedition was over 1000 kilometres on foot, horse, and canoe.

During his service in the local militia, Percy also witnessed at first hand the conflict leading up to the Taranaki wars. In March 1858 he saw the fighting at Waitara, where he was employed to make sketches of the stockades.

In 1859 he was transferred to the Auckland district where he worked with the Land Purchase Department, surveying newly acquired government land in the Kaipara and Northern Wairoa.
In April 1860 he was instructed to return at once to Kaipara, where he acted as an interpreter and intermediary to persuade Ngati Whatua to help in the defence of Auckland against a rumoured attack from the Waikato tribes. Smith was then employed in laying out the boundaries of blocks at Coromandel and in the survey of military settlements in the Waikato.

Percy Smith married Mary Anne CROMPTON on 23 April 1863. They remained in Auckland until 1865 when he was transferred back to Taranaki as district surveyor. There his main duties were the survey of lands confiscated from the Maori.
In the following decade, he surveyed territories in various parts of New Zealand. In 1868 he was undertaking a survey of Pitt Islands in the Chathams at the time when Te Kooti escaped on the Rifleman to Poverty Bay.

He was appointed the first geodesical surveyor and chief surveyor of the provincial district of Auckland in the department of the surveyor general in 1877 and assistant surveyor-general in 1882.

Immediately after the eruption of Mount Tarawera in 1886 he made visits to the region and reported his findings in The Eruption of Tarawera (1886).

In 1887 he joined an expedition to the Kermadec Islands to confirm New Zealand possession and to report on the group, which he did in The Kermadec Islands: Their Capabilities and Extent (1887). His career as a surveyor reached its peak when he was appointed as surveyor-general in January 1889.

Percy Smith died on 19 April 1922 at his home, Mataimoana, in New Plymouth, 11 years after the death of his wife. They were survived by four children

Smith's biography (first published in 1993) in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography is more forthright, stating that ?In some areas, particularly his account of the origins of the Maori and their arrival in New Zealand, Smith's interpretation has not survived the light cast on it by later historical and archaeological research.

Scholars have criticised Smith's use of his source materials and his editing of Maori traditions for publication....
Smith's careers in surveying and ethnology were characterised by hard work and dedication, and he received recognition for both in his lifetime. Although it is now generally accepted that much of his work on the Maori is unreliable, his research nevertheless provided a basis for the development of professional ethnology in New Zealand.
As a successful civil servant and respected scholar he was perhaps one of New Zealand's most prolific intellectuals of the late nineteenth century, and was a major contributor to the scientific debate over the origins and nature of the Maori" (G.M. Byrnes 2006).



see also the biography from the
New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 10, Issue 7 (October 1, 1935)

Forum at RootsChar for Stephenson Percy Smith

Surveyor Extrodinaire Explorer and adventurer (with photos)

the following is a list of ships into PORT CHALMERS from 1849 to 1885

it was taken from NZETC White Wings Vol II
.. part I - Founding the Provinces
.. part II - Old-TIme Shipping
.. part III - Passenger Ships to 1885

INDEX OF SHIPS
into AUCKLAND
into LYTTELTON (Christchurch)
into NAPIER (Hawkes Bay)
into NELSON (Marlborough)
into NEW PLYMOUTH (Taranaki)
into PORT CHALMERS (Dunedin)
into WELLINGTON
- (most of the ships are links at the above site)


1849
Bernicia, 548 tons, Captain Arnold, sailed July 7th. Landed passengers at New Plymouth, Nelson and Wellington, and brought on 60 for Dunedin. Arrived December 12th, 1849.

Ajax, 767 tons, Captain J. Young, sailed September 8th, 1848, arrived January 8th with 186 passengers. The ship, after discharging and landing a portion of her passengers, sailed for Wellington and Nelson, arriving at the latter port on March 9th. The Ajax was wrecked at Anjer when on a voyage from Manilla to London, March 12th, 1850.

Mary, 533 tons, Captain T. Grant, sailed November 2nd, 1848, landed passengers at Northern ports, and arrived on April 11th with 70 passengers.

Larkins, 770 tons, Captain Burton, sailed June 6th, arrived September 11th. Passengers, 220.

Cornwall, 559 tons, Captain W. Dawson, sailed April 20th, arrived via, Northern ports September 23rd. Passengers, 70.

Pekin, 562 tons, Captain G. Whitby, sailed August 6th, arrived December 5th. Passengers, 116.

Mooltan, 560 tons, Captain W. Chivas, sailed September 12th, arrived December 26th. Passengers, 120. Cholera broke out on board September 21st, and continued until October 15th. Out of 20 cases, 9 died.

1850
Berkshire, 582 tons, Captain White, sailed October 2nd, 1849, arrived March 12th. Ship grounded at Nelson February 1st. Passengers carried on to Wellington and Otago by Woodstock and schooner Perseverence.

Phoebe Dunbar, 704 tons, Captain Michie, sailed July 4th, arrived October 24th. Passengers, 29. Later sailed for Wellington and Nelson. This was the last ship despatched to Port Chalmers by the New Zealand Company.

Lady Nugent, 668 tons, Captain J. Parsons, sailed December 7th, 1849, arrived March 26th. Passengers, 110.

Poictiers, 756 tons, Captain T. Beale, sailed London February 5th, Hyde February 24th, arrived via Taranaki and Nelson September 6th with 29 passengers for Otago.

1851
Cresswell, 547 tons, Captain Williams, arrived May 6th, via Auckland and Wellington. First of Willis Gann's ships to visit this port.

Simlah, 597 tons, Captain Robertson, arrived November 23rd, via Wellington.

1853
Royal Albert, 662 tons, Captain Norris, sailed November 5th, 1852, arrived March 6th. The ship was of a peculiar construction, drawing a great depth of water (over 18 feet) in proportion to her tonnage. She was unable to sail up the harbour past the native village until her cargo had been discharged. Passengers, 120.

1854
Dolphin, 370 tons, Captain Turnbull, arrived November 8th. Passengers, 35.

Pudsey Dawson, 761 tons, Captain Davies, arrived December 15th. Passengers, 21.

Sea Snake, 470 tons, Captain Lohr, arrived April 19th. Passengers, 20.

1856
Isabella Hercus, 568 tons, Captain Sewell, arrived February 1st, via Wellington. Passengers, 22.

Sir Edward Paget, 481 tons, Captain Wycherley, arrived August 15th. Passengers, 60.

1857
William And Jane, 457 tons, Captain Chapman, arrived February 3rd, 104 days from London. Passengers, 17.

Lord Hardinge, 341 tons, Captain Irwin, arrived September 21st, via Nelson.

1858
Strathfieldsaye, 660 tons, Captain Brown, sailed January 22nd, arrived April 29th. Passengers, 263.

Nourmahal, 884 tons, Captain Brayley, arrived May 5th. Passengers, 264.

Three Bells, 602 tons, Captain Rowley, sailed from Glasgow March 20th, arrived July 13th. Passengers, 325.

Rockhampton, arrived April 3rd.

Lord Worsley, steamer, 290 tons, Captain Johnston, sailed June 2nd, arrived October 4th. Passengers, 60. This steamer traded for many years on the New Zealand coast.

Regina, 676 tons, Captain Thornton, sailed July 18th, arrived November 9th. Passengers, 160.

Gloucester, 1000 tons, Captain Hiatt, sailed September 14th, arrived December 26th. Passengers, 98.

Palmyra, 706 tons, Captain Tierney, sailed London October 28th, 1857, arrived February 14th. Nine deaths during the voyage.

1859
Temora, 418 tons, Captain Bridie, sailed November 9th, 1858, arrived March 5th. Was detained 15 days at Cape de Verde Islands repairing damage sustained in a gale in Bay of Biscay. Passengers, 60.

Countess Of Fife, 510 tons, Captain Collie, arrived September 7th. Landed passengers, and proceeded to Wellington and New Plymouth with passengers and cargo.

Equator, ship, 481 tons, Captain Sillberg, arrived via Wellington March 21st. 181 days from Gravesend.

Alpine, 1164 tons, Captain Crawford, sailed from Glasgow June 10th, arrived September 12th. Passengers, 500. One of the finest vessels visiting Otago at that date.

Sebastan, 364 tons, Captain Begg, arrived October 6th; passage, 96 days. Passengers, 28.

1860
Henrietta, sailed May 30th, arrived September 24th. Passengers, 220.

1861
Velore, 484 tons, Captain Hayes, sailed from Gravesend March 10th, Spithead March 25th, arrived August 8th. Passage, 148 days. Passengers, 22. The ship was sent out by the Shaw-Savill Co.

1862
Akbar, 734 tons, Captain Hutton, sailed January 1st, arrived April 15th. Passengers, 78.

Escore, ship, 671 tons, Captain D. Smith, sailed April 19th, arrived August 26th. Passengers, 97.

Sarah M., 1018 tons, Captain Raisbeck, sailed September 26th, arrived December 31st. Passengers, 145.

1863
Crimea, 1080 tons, Captain Watson, sailed May 5th, arrived September 1st. Passengers, 98.

Sir Ralph Abercrombie, 743 tons, Captain Gilbert, sailed June 13th, arrived September 14th. Passengers, 40. Called at Lyttelton and landed passengers.

New Great Britain, 571 tons, Captain G. Trader, arrived via Bluff September 28th. Passengers, 170 for Otago.

Phoebe Dunbar, 600 tons, Captain Crouch, sailed June 29th, arrived October 11th. Passengers, 50.

Persian, 1069 tons, Captain Wright, sailed July 25th, arrived November 12th. Passengers, 76.

Albert William, Captain Walker, sailed August 6th, arrived November 23rd. Pioneer ship, White Star Line, to Port Chalmers. Passengers, 21.

General Wyndham, 657 tons, Captain Leslie, sailed July 30th, arrived November 29th. Passengers, 21. Owing to very light northerly winds, Equator not crossed until 52nd day out.

Daniel Rankin, 1048 tons, Captain Muller, sailed September 5th, arrived December 6th. Passengers, 153.

1864
Brechin Castle, Captain Parkinson, sailed October 1st, 1863, arrived January 24th. Passengers, 42.

Lady Raglan, 730 tons, Captain Bowden, sailed from London October 5th, Portsmouth October 23rd, 1863, arrived February 3rd. Passengers, 62.

Rachael, 571 tons, Captain J. McDonald, sailed October 6th, 1863, arrived February 4th. Passengers, 21.

Cecilia, 686 tons, Captain Hudson, sailed from London October 26th, from Downs November 5th, 1863, arrived February 9th. Passengers, 59.

Vectis, 591 tons, Captain McCaskill, sailed January 4th, arrived May 1st. Passengers, 75.

Severn, 502 tons, Captain Craigie, sailed February 6th, arrived May 8th. Passengers, 32.

Silesia, 781 tons, Captain W. Carmichael, sailed December 28th, 1863, arrived May 12th. Passengers, 24.

Warwickshire, 679 tons, Captain W. Keller, sailed April 10th, arrived July 21st. Passengers, 29.

Industry, 592 tons, Captain Bennett, sailed April 28th, arrived September 6th. Passengers, 45.

Ajmeer, 1163 tons, Captain D. Smith, sailed May 12th, arrived September 6th. Passengers, 76.

Hamilla Mitchell, 960 tons, Captain Branscombe, sailed June 10th, arrived September 20th. Passengers, 150.

1865
Gloriosa, 650 tons, Captain Le Bas, sailed October 6th, 1864, arrived January 22nd. Passengers, 44.

Lady Ann, 688 tons, Captain Phillips, sailed November 7th, 1864, arrived March 8th. Passengers, 27.

General Wyndham, 657 tons, Captain Leslie, sailed December 16th, 1864, arrived March 29th. Passengers, 41.

Jessie Gilbert, 634 tons, Captain Stapleton, arrived via Bluff June 4th. Passengers, 33.

Lizzie Southard, 1044 tons, sailed February 28th, arrived June 4th. Passengers, 41.

Caribou, 1160 tons, Captain Kerr, sailed April 1st, arrived July 14th. Passengers, 162. Other voyages by this ship published in Vol. I., WHITE WINGS.

Leichast, 1000 tons, Captain Sennett, sailed April 28th, arrived August 2nd. Passengers, 65.

1866
Parcsian, 800 tons, Captain D'Oyley, sailed October 14th, 1865, arrived January 15th. Passengers, 37.

Pana, 621 tons, Captain R. Nicol, sailed October 14th, 1865, arrived January 19th. Passengers, 91.

Stornoway, 675 tons, Captain Tomlins, sailed November 28th, arrived April 2nd. Passengers, 25.

Bengal, 834 tons, Captain Bounnell, sailed April 14th, arrived July 31st. Passengers, 22.

1867
Countess Russell, 964 tons, Captain Stuart, sailed October 22nd, 1866, arrived February 22nd. Passengers, 34.

Elizabeth Flemming, 727 tons, Captain Foster, sailed March 8th, arrived June 12th. Passengers, 33.

1868
Ajmeer, Captain Pugh, sailed March 24th, arrived July 7th. Passengers, 35.

Caller-Ou, 674 tons, Captain Joass, sailed June 21st, arrived September 15th. Passengers, 26.

Schleswig Bride, 1110 tons, Captain Hansen, sailed from Glasgow June 24th, arrived October 8th. Passengers, 265.

1869
Undaunted, 868 tons, Captain Grierson, sailed March 23rd, arrived July 9th. Passengers, 21.

Challenger, 670 tons, Captain Lovell, sailed April 16th, arrived July 20th. Passengers, 28.

1870
William Lindsay, 970 tons, Captain Galloway, sailed December 18th, 1869, arrived March 8th. Passage made in 75 days from landing pilot off Dartmouth to Otago Heads. Passengers, 27.

Achilles, 1520 tons, Captain Massey, sailed March 18th, arrived July 3rd. Passengers, 43.

Lucadia, 896 tons, Captain Mearns, sailed May 12th, arrived August 14th. Detained 10 days in Channel, stormy weather. Passengers, 34.

1871
Roslyn Castle, 644 tons, Captain Alexander, sailed from Downs March 1st, arrived June 2nd. Passengers, 22.

Carrick Castle, 879 tons, Captain Peters, sailed April 22nd, arrived August 4th. Passengers, 33.

Shun Lee, 674 tons, Captain Langlands, sailed May 18th, arrived December 2nd. Passengers, 23.

1872
Helen Burns, 798 tons, Captain Malcolm, sailed August 14th, August 27th. Passengers, 23.

1873
St. Kilda, 865 tons. Captain Atkins, sailed May 9th, arrived August 19th. Passengers, 21.

1874
Haddon Hall, 1516 tons, Captain Faithful, sailed June 13th, arrived September 17th. Passengers, 44.

Florence, 808 tons, Captain Houston, sailed September 6th, arrived December 29th. Passengers, 32.

1875
Janet Cowan, 1278 tons, Captain McBride, sailed October 9th, 1874, arrived January 5th. Passengers, 58.

Sophia Joachine, 1084 tons, Captain Thompson, sailed October 3rd, 1874, arrived January 25th. Passengers, 31.

Altcar, 1283 tons, Captain Harvey, sailed May 18th, arrived August 30th. Passengers, 25.

1876
Olive, 847 tons, sailed October 4th, 1875, arrived February 8th. Passengers, 25.

Caithlock, 1264 tons, Captain Phillips, sailed February 4th, arrived April 29th. Passengers, 50.

Orpheus, 1461 tons, Captain Glass, arrived June 20th. 90 days' passage. Passengers, 39.

Norval, 1427 tons, Captain Young, sailed May 2nd, arrived July 29th. Passengers, 40.

1877
Lady Ruthven, 1591 tons, Captain Welsh, sailed May 2nd, arrived July 24th?79 days land to land. Passengers, 50.

1878
Sarah Bell, 812 tons, Captain Ditchburn, sailed September 21st, 1877, arrived January 4th. Passengers, 26.

County of Peebles, 1614 tons, Captain Fordyce, sailed November 3rd, 1877. Cleared Channel November 15th. Arrived January 29th. Passengers, 37.

Strathblane, 1363 tons, Captain Crawford, sailed February 4th, arrived May 9th. Passengers, 22.

Panmure, 1505 tons, Captain Downie, sailed April 6th, arrived July 13th. Passengers, 29.

Rokeby Hall, 1044 tons, Captain Clark, sailed May 10th, arrived August 21st. Passengers, 22.

1879
Norval, 1247 tons, Captain Halliday, sailed October 6th, 1878, arrived January 2nd. Passengers, 48.

Easterhill, 890 tons, Captain D. Evans, sailed November. 1st, 1878, arrived February 8th. Passengers, 28. Master refused furnish any report. This barque, launched at Dundee in 1878, was on her maiden voyage.

Rialto, 1166 tons, Captain Williamson, sailed November 26th, 1878, arrived March 4th. Passengers, 25.

Peter Stuart, 1447 tons, Captain Vanstone, sailed December 29th, 1878, arrived March 24th. Passengers, 25.

East Lothian, 1389 tons, Captain Barr, sailed from London January 9th, arrived April 8th. Smart passage, 89 days port to port.

Dunnottar Castle, 1702 tons, Captain Hinks, sailed January 29th, arrived May 9th. Passengers, 30.

Millwall, 1165 tons, Captain Weir, sailed February 26th, arrived June 26th. Passengers, 22.

Rousenbech, 930 tons, Captain Steet, sailed March 28th, arrived June 29th. Passengers, 27.

Cape Clear, 852 tons, Captain Tupinan, sailed April 10th, arrived July 16th. Passengers, 38.

Cockermouth, 1296 tons, Captain Parker, sailed April 26th, arrived August 6th. Passengers, 41.

Blair Drummond, 1450 tons, Captain Guthrie, sailed May 24th, arrived August 25th. Passengers, 51.

Lizzie Bell, 1036 Tons, Captain Moignard, sailed July 10th, arrived October 15th. Passengers, 40.

1880
City of Florence, 1200 tons, Captain Hunter, sailed January 3rd, arrived April 11th. Passengers, 41.

Rialto, 1166 tons, Captain Williamson, sailed February 11th, arrived May 17th. Passengers, 27.

Abernyte, 700 tons, sailed March 3rd, arrived June 12th. Passengers, 21.

Dunbritton, 1475 tons, Captain Emmett, sailed March 12th, arrived June 13th. Passengers, 72.

City of Sparta, 1193 tons, Captain Watson, sailed June 10th, arrived September 5th. Passengers, 43.

Durham, 998 tons, Captain Seymour, sailed June 26th, arrived October 3rd. Passengers, 30.

1881
City of Lucknow, 1195 tons, Captain Halley, sailed August 19th, arrived October 15th?86 days port to port, Passengers, 24.

1882
Janet Mcneil, 898 tons, Captain Jones, sailed January 27th, arrived April 21st. Passengers, 30.

Abeona, 979 tons, Captain Wilson, sailed March 26th, arrived July 6th.

City of Bombay, 990 tons, Captain Rhind, sailed June 29th, arrived October 18th. Passengers, 39.

1883
Philomone, 1423 tons, Captain Holmes, sailed November 7th, 1882, arrived February 1st.

Embleton, 1196 tons, Captain Paynter, sailed from Glasgow May 30th, arrived September 24th. 45 passengers. This ship, after discharging a portion of her cargo, ran up from Port Chalmers to Auckland in 4 days 18 hours.

1884
Saraco, 836 tons, Captain Symmes, sailed June 7th, arrived September 14th. Passengers, 29.

1885
Braemar, 1008 tons, Captain Caw, sailed February 27th. Met terrific gale?ship seriously damaged, and returned to Glasgow. After repairs completed, sailed again April 18th. Arrived August 3rd. A new vessel on maiden voyage. Passengers, 23.