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The Old Waterfront, p 48 The Streets of my city, Wellington New Zealand,
by F. L. Irvine-Smith. (1948).

APPENDIX

Contents: a letter | Part One chapters: 1 | 2 | Part Two chapters: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15
Part Three chapters: Intro | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Appendix

Captain John Nicholson, master on half-pay in the Royal Navy, had visited the Port (Wellington) in 1820 in the brig "Haweis." In January, 1821, Nicholson was appointed by Governor Macquarrie master attendant and harbourmaster at Sydney, a post which he held until his retirement. He was married at the age of thirty in St. Phillip's Church, Sydney, and had thirteen children. He died in 1863.
Colonel Wakefield's diary was given by the Colonel to his clerk, Mr. D. Lewis, who presented it to Mr. W. Tanner, who left it to the Turnbull Library.
The Khandallah Domain, comprising (a) an area of 31 acres, with access from Simla Crescent and Clarke Street, is Crown Land, the control of which is vested in the Wellington City Council. This is adjoined by a further (b) 7 1/4 acres, known as the Khandallah Reserve, in which the swimming pool is located, and was purchased in 1909 by the Onslow Borough Council for water supply purposes, and this again by (c) the Catchment Area, a block of 144 acres extending up to the Kaukau ridge.
WRECKS ON BARRETT REEF
  • October 16th 1848 ... Sobraon (ship)
  • October 4th, 1849 ... Inconstant (ship), "Noah's Ark"
  • September 21st, 1871 ... Lady Bird (3 masted schooner)
  • May 8th 1874 ... Earl of South Esk (barque)
  • April 8th, 1876 ... Hunter (schooner)
  • September 10th, 1876 ...Shepherdess (schooner)
  • July 25th, 1880 ... Malay (barque)
  • December 8th, 1882 ... s.s. Napier
  • November jrd, 1883 ... Cabafeidh (barque)
  • August loth, 1885 ... Coronilla (barque)
  • October 6th, 1897 ... Clansman (schooner)
  • August 5th, 1915 ... s.s. Corinna
  • May 30th 1933 ... Golden Harvest (American freighter)
  • January, 1947 ... m.v. Wanganella
    • Some Island Bay Street names : Avon Street, Brighton Street, Bristol Street, Cam Street, Carlisle Street, Clonmel Road, Clyde Street, Danube Street, Dargle Street, Dee Street, Derwent Street, Don Street, Dover Street, Eden Street, Hudson Street, Humber Street, Liffey Crescent, Liffey Street, Medway Street, Mersey Street, Moselle Street, Murray Street, Rhine Street, Rhone Street, Ribble Street, Seinc Street, Severn Street, Tamar Street, Thames Street, Trent Street, Tyne Street, Volga Street.
    Indian Street Names of Khandallah: Agra Crescent, Amritsar Street, Baroda Street, Bengal Street, Calcutta Street, Cashmere Avenue, Dekka Street, Delhi Street, Everest Street, Ganges Road, Indus Street, Kim Street, Lucknow Terrace, Madras Street, Maldive Street, Mandalay Terrace, Omar Street, Poons Street, Rangoon Street, Simla Crescent, Simla Avenue.
    Easdale, a hamlet in the island of Seil, on the Atlantic coast of Argyll, has lately come into prominence through the establishment of the Barrmor Tool Works, the only tool works in the Scottish Highlands. (See "Sphere," 4/10/47.)
    Kinross, on Loch Leven, is the County town of Kinross, Bire, Scotland.
    Buller Street, Wellington, takes its name from Walter Lawry Buller, K.C.M.G., DSc., F.R.S., son of the Rev. James Buller (1812-1884), author of "Forty Years in New Zealand". Buller River, Westland, was named in 1846 by Mr. (afterwards Sir William) Fox after Chas. Buller, M.P. (1806-1848), a Director of the New Zealand Company.
    MAYORS OF WELLINGTON CITY
    1842 - George Hunter.
    1843 - William Guyton.
    (1843 to 1870 - Wellington was a Town Board.)
    1870 to 1873 - Joseph Dransfield.
    1874 - Charles Bonython Borlase.
    1875 - William Sefton Moorhouse.
    1876 to I 877 - William Hutchison.
    1878 to May 9th, 1879 - Joseph Dransfield.
    May 9th, to May 29th, 1879 - George Allen.
    Remainder of 1879 - William Hutchison.
    1880 to 1881 - William Hutchison.
    1882 to 1885 - George Fisher.
    1886 Arthur Winton Brown.
    1887 to 1888 - Samuel Brown.
    1889 - John Duthie.
    1890 - Charles John Johnston (Knighted 1918).
    1891 - Arthur Winton Brown.
    1892 to 1893 - Francis Henry Dillon Bell.
    1894 - Alfred de Bathe Brandon.
    1895 - Charles Manley Luke (Knighted 1939).
    1896 - George Fisher.
    1897 - Francis Henry Dillon Bell (Knighted 1915).
    1898 to 1899 - John Rutherford Blair.
    1900 to 1904 - John Guthrie Wood Aitken.
    1905 to 1908 - Hon. Thomas Wm. Hislop.
    1909 - Alfred Kingcombe Newman, M.D.
    1910 to 1911 - Thomas Mason Wilford, M.P. (Knighted 1930).
    1911 - Councillor John Smith, Acting Mayor for six (6) months during sick leave of Mr. Wilford.
    1912- David McLaren.
    1913 to 1921 - John Pearce Luke (Knighted 1921).
    1921 to 1925-Hon. Robert Alexander Wright, M.P.
    1925 to 1927 - Charles John Boyd Norwood (Knighted 1927).
    1927 to 1931 - George Alexander Troup (Knighted 1927).
    1931 to 1943 - Thomas Charles Atkinson Hislop.
    1944 to - Will Appleton.
    1948 - Cr. R. L. Macalister, Acting-Mayor during sick leave of Mr. Appleton.
    NAME AND TITLE OF WELLINGTON "In 1728 Mr. Richard Colley, M.P., assumed by Royal license the surname of Wesley. In 1746 he was created Baron of Mornington. In 1760 his son Garret, who had succeeded him, was created Viscount Wellesley and Earl of Mornington, the family having changed their surname from 'Wesley' to 'Wellesley'. The earl's third son, Arthur, was in 1809 created Baron Douro of Wellesley in County Somerset and Viscount Wellington of Talavera and of Wellington in County Somerset. In 1812 he was created Earl of Wellington, in 1813 Marquess of Wellington and in 1814 Marquess of Douro and Duke of Wellington - always the same Wellington in Somerset." Evening Post," 16/2/48
    The Ven. Archdeacon Arthur Lloyd Hansell, who has been described as "one of the finest parish priests ever to work in the Wellington Diocese," was born at Norwich in 1865 and died at Karori, New Zealand, in 1948. Educated at Charterhouse and Oxford, he was ordained in 1891, and after serving for some years as curate at Wantage, in the Diocese of Oxford, he arrived in New Zealand in 1899, where he was appointed to the post of Vicar of Karori, passing on in 1914 to the parish of Lower Hutt. In 1922 he became Archdeacon of Wairarapa and in 1939 Archdeacon of Wellington. He spent his well-earned retirement at Karori.

    PLUNKET MEDALLISTS
    Victoria University College, Wellington
    1905 - Edward Joshua Fitzgibbon.
    1906 - Humphrey Francis O'Leary. (1)
    1907 - Francis Patrick Kelly.
    1908 - David Stanley Smith.
    1909 - George William Morice.
    1910 - Matthew Henry Oram.
    1911 - Frederick George Hall-Jones.
    1913 - Oswald Chettle Mazengarb.
    1913 - (Miss) Marjory Lydia Nicholls.
    1914 - No contest.
    1915 - No contest.
    1916 - Eurfryn Evans.
    1917- (Miss) Monica Neumann.
    1918 - Percival Martinsmith.
    1919 - Charles Gordon Kirk.
    1920 - Wilfred Erne Leicester.
    1931 - Arthur Stanley Tonkin.
    1922 - Patrick Joseph George Smith.
    1923 - Ivan Larnach Hjorring.
    1924 - James William Gideon Davidson.
    1925 - Sidney Erne Baume.
    1926 - John Faithful Fortescue Platts-Mills.
    1927 - William Penrose Rolling.
    1928 - William Joseph Mountjoy.
    1929 - Arthur Donald Priestley.
    1930 - Albert Eaton Hurley.
    1931 - (Miss) Zenocrate Ruth Macdonald Henderson.
    1932 - (Miss) Catherine Stalker Forde.
    1933 - Alfred Katz.
    1934 - Reginald John Larkin.
    1935 - Kingi G. T. Tahiwi.
    1936 - John Bertram Aimers.
    1937 - Albert Henry Scotney.
    1938 - William Wah.
    1939 - Brendon McPadden O'Connor.
    1940 - Joseph Bernard Bergin.
    1941 - Lindsay Nathan.
    1942 - (Miss) Marjorie Cecil Crompton.
    1943 - Humphrey Maurice Bowen O'Leary. (1)
    1944 - John Cyprian Phipps Williams.(2)
    1945 - Klaus Neuberg.
    1946 - Kevin Benjamin O'Brien.
    1947 - James Dalton Milburn.
    1948 - Alexander Tancred Williams. (2)
    1. Father and son
    2. Brothers

    PREMIERS OF NEW ZEALAND 1856, May 7th .. Henry Sewell
    1856, May 20th .. William Fox
    1856, June and .. Edward William Stafford
    1861, July 12th .. William Fox
    1862, August 6th .. Alfred Domett
    1863, October 30th .. Frederick Whitaker
    1864, November 24th .. Frederick Aloysius Weld
    1865, October 16th .. Edward William Stafford
    1869, June 28th .. William Fox
    1872, September 10th .. Hon. Edward William Stafford
    1872, October 11th .. George Marsden Waterhouse
    1873, March 3rd .. Hon. William Fox
    1873, April 8th .. Hon. Julius Vogel, C.M.G.
    1875, July 6th .. Hon. Daniel Pollen, M.L.C.
    1876, February 15th .. Sir Julius Vogel, K.C.M.G.
    1876, September 1st .. Harry Albert Atkinson
    1876, September 13th .. Harry Albert Atkinson (Ministry reconstructed)
    1877, October 15th .. Sir George Grey, K.C.B.
    1879, October 8th .. Hon. John Hall
    1882, April 21st .. Frederick Whitaker, M.L.C.
    1883, September 25th .. Harry Albert Atkinson
    1884, August 16th .. Robert Stout
    1884, August 28th .. Harry Albert Athkinson
    1884, September 3rd .. Sir Robert Stout, K.C.M.G.
    1887, October 8th .. Sir Harry Albert Atkinson, K.C.M.G.
    1891, January 24th .. John Ballance.
    1893, May 1st ... Richard John Seddon
    1893, June 21st ... William Hall. Jones
    1906, August 6th .. Hon. Sir Joseph George Ward, K.C.M.G.
    1912, March 28th .. Thomas Mackenzie
    1912, July 10th .. William Perguson Massey (Reform Government)
    1915, August 12th .. Rt. Hon. William Ferguson Massey, (National government)
    1919, August 25th .. Rt. Hon. William Ferguson Massey,(National government)
    1925, May 14th .. Rt. Hon. Sir Francis Bell, M.L.C.
    1925, May 30th .. Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph George Ward
    1928, December 10th .. Rt Hon. Sir Joseph George Ward, P.C., K.C.M.G.
    1930, May 28th .. Hon. George William Forbes.
    1931, September 22nd .. Rt. Hon. George William Forbes (Coalition government)
    1935, December 5th .. Rt. Hon. Michael Joseph Savage (Labour government)
    1940, April 1st .. Rt. Hon. Peter Fraser (Labour Government)
    In December, 1932, Lord Bledisloe, in pursuance of his interest in agriculture, founded the Bledisloe Challenge Cup (Ahuwhenua Trophy) for the encouragement of good farming in Maori Land Development Schemes. In addition to holding the Cup for a year, the best Maori farmer receives a medal, while to those gaining second and third place, a certificate to that effect is presented. Lord Bledisloe likewise founded the Viscount Bledisloe Silver Challenge Trophy for the garden, large or small, showing the best and most attractive use of New Zealand plants, due allowance being made for the ingenuity and resourcefulness which their employment in a small garden necessarily involves. The winner holds the Trophy for one year, and in addition, is presented with a gold medal by the Wellington Horticultural Society, which annually conducts the competition. "Bledisloe Benefactions" are endless.
    Entrance to the botanical gardens illustration page 308

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