and how many are the changes that have taken place during that period the place looks much more dull and deserted than it did then even with the small gold field village at Kapanga Arapoaoa is deserted where formerly the axe and hammer was heard from sunrise to sunset where square rigged ships called for produce and New Zealand spars. I should like to be possessed of the Island of Arapaoa its old associations are still vivid in my recollection with old Pa hatta Tai Koiwas party Jock Downing Webster, Harry Large, Dunlop and others