Notes - Packhorse to Plane—Development of Postal Services - Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, N.I., N.Z.
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The first attempt to transmit a message by wireless from Gisborne was made at 2 a.m. on 17 June, 1901, by G. Kemp. Using a home-made battery set, he sent out, from the signal station, greetings from the mayor (Mr. Townley) to the Royal yacht Ophir , on which the Duke and Duchess of York (later Ki...
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Presbyterian Church - Ecclesiastical - Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, N.I., N.Z.
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Whilst on a visit to Poverty Bay , at the instance of the Hawke's Bay Presbytery, in May, 1872, the Rev. George Morice , of St. Paul's, Napier, advanced the sum required to buy the Matawhero church from Captain Read. The Rev. W. Hevington Root (formerly an Anglican minister), who was sent out to ...
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Churches of Other Sects - Ecclesiastical - Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, N.I., N.Z.
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The Congregationalists opened a church in Gisborne on 25 April, 1886, but, two years later, when the pastor ( Rev. A. H. Wallace ) resigned to re-enter the Presbyterian Church, it was closed. The Gisborne Group of Christian Scientists (formed in 1914) gained recognition as a branch of the Mother ...
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Search for Oil - Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, N.I., N.Z.
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Traces of oil were discovered in 1866 at two points within a band running from Mahia to East Cape. A Forest Ranger named Oscar Beyer stumbled across seepages in the Waipaoa Valley whilst he was out with a party of scouts looking for stray Hauhaus, and James Peachey gathered a bottle of oil from s...
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District's Early Defenders and Its Heroes Overseas - “Lest We Forget” - Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, N.I., N.Z.
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The first military unit to be stationed in Poverty Bay was a section of the Forest Rangers, which was placed at Te Arai after the Siege of Waerenga-a-Hika (1865). It was disbanded early in 1866, and, in July of that year, the Poverty Bay Militia ( Major Biggs , commander) and the Poverty Bay M.R....
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Trials of Travel in Bygone Days - Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, N.I., N.Z.
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Much risk, as well as discomfort and delay, was sometimes attendant upon a voyage along the East Coast in the early days. In October, 1843, William Williams , his son Leonard, and some natives set out by schooner from Poverty Bay for Wellington. On account of the vessel being driven back from Coo...
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Biographical - Trials of Travel in Bygone Days - Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, N.I., N.Z.
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John Robert Redstone (born at Tavistock, England, in 1850) was apprenticed to the blacksmithing trade. He came out to Napier in 1872, but, on account of an accident, he had to adopt another form of livelihood. He started the first horse bus service between Napier and The Spit. In June, 1891, he s...
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Travel By Air - Trials of Travel in Bygone Days - Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, N.I., N.Z.
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Early in 1931 Dominion Air Lines Ltd. operated a de Souter 3-seat cabin monoplane between Gisborne and Hastings. G. Bolt was the chief pilot. On 8 February, 1931, Ivan Kite was flying the machine when it crashed near the railway station at Wairoa whilst he was circling to drop a parcel. He and hi...
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Bay of Plenty Seat - Election Echoes. — Sir James Carroll's Unique Record - Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, N.I., N.Z.
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William Kelly (Lib.), 1893–6. William Herbert Herries (Con.), 1896–1908, when he became member for Tauranga. William Donald Stuart MacDonald (1908–20). 1908 — W. D. S. MacDonald (Lib.), 2,650; J. B. Gow (Con.), 2,204. 1911 — W. D. S. MacDonald (Lib.), 3,177; H. D. de Lautour (R.), 2,621. 1914 — W...
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Legislative Council - Election Echoes. — Sir James Carroll's Unique Record - Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, N.I., N.Z.
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George Randall Johnson (1872 till 1892), Mokena Kohere (1872–87), Major Ropata Wahawaha (1887 till his death in September, 1897), William Kelly (1897 till his death on 19 September, 1907), Wiremu Pere (1907–12), William Henry Tucker (1907–14), William Morgan (1914 till his death in February, 1918...
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From One-roomed Shacks to Many-sided, Modern Institutions - Progress of Education - Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, N.I., N.Z.
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The first public school in Poverty Bay —the Gisborne Central School—stood on the north-west corner of Childers Road and Lowe Street. It was opened by the Auckland Board of Education in February, 1872. W. Dean page 360 Lysnar, the first master, received a salary of £150 per annum, and, to suppleme...
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Gisborne High School - Progress of Education - Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, N.I., N.Z.
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The first Board of Governors (appointed in 1886) comprised: Archdeacon W. L. Williams (chairman) and Rev. J. McAra (Government representatives), A. Graham and C. A. de Lautour (Gisborne Borough), J. W. Johnson and D. Johnston, junior (Cook County). Since 1914 the Hawke's Bay Education Board has a...
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Nature in Freakish Mood - Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, N.I., N.Z.
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Poverty Bay escaped lightly on the occasion of the tragic earthquake which caused 151 deaths in and around Napier, 92 at Hastings, two at Wairoa and one at Mohaka on 3 February, 1931, and, in addition, did damage to property in Hawke's Bay to the extent of £5,000,000. The first shock, at 10.46 a....
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Earthquakes, Seismic Waves, Floods and Droughts - Nature in Freakish Mood - Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, N.I., N.Z.
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Poverty Bay escaped lightly on the occasion of the tragic earthquake which caused 151 deaths in and around Napier, 92 at Hastings, two at Wairoa and one at Mohaka on 3 February, 1931, and, in addition, did damage to property in Hawke's Bay to the extent of £5,000,000. The first shock, at 10.46 a....
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Poverty Bay's Natural History Prizes - Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, N.I., N.Z.
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Although it is improbable that the trader Joel Samuel Polack (who visited the East Coast in 1835 and 1836) came across a moa bone earlier than Captain J. W. Harris (who settled in Poverty Bay in 1831), it was he who first made it known that New Zealand had been the habitat of huge, flightless bir...
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Moa Footprints Found at Gisborne - Poverty Bay's Natural History Prizes - Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, N.I., N.Z.
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Moa footprints were first observed in New Zealand on the left bank of Waikanae Creek close to its entrance into Turanganui River at Gisborne. Some stone slabs bearing the markings were sent to the Auckland Museum in 1871. In an address to the Auckland Philosophical Society (29 May, 1871), W. L. W...
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Mystery Solved - Toll of the Sea - Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, N.I., N.Z.
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Mystery attached to the disappearance of the cutter Wave from Wairoa in 1856. She had been built by some natives for Thaddeus Lewis. In official quarters it was feared that she had been lost on her way to Auckland. Some people believed that Lewis had made off to Valparaiso. An old man, who was kn...
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Ship Blown to Pieces - Toll of the Sea - Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, N.I., N.Z.
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A terrible fate befell the master and crew of the American-owned schooner Bertha Dolbeer , en route from San Francisco to Wellington. Off the East Coast, fire broke out among her cargo of 9,000 cases of benzine, and she was blown to pieces. In February, 1918, wreckage began to come ashore between...
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A once familiar scene in Gisborne roadstead. — s.t. Tuatea tendering a passenger steamer
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Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, N.I., N.Z. - Earliest Journals and Their Founders - A once familiar scene in Gisborne roadstead. s.t. Tuatea tendering a passenger steamer.
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Landing passengers and cargo at Waipiro Bay in the 1890's. — F. R. Hargreaves, Photo
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Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, N.I., N.Z. - Earliest Journals and Their Founders - Landing passengers and cargo at Waipiro Bay in the 1890's. F. R. Hargreaves, Photo.
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