HEMFELMAM MEMORIAL

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LXIII, Issue 6521, 28 March 1939, Page 3

HEMFELMAM MEMORIAL

UNVEILING CEREMONY AT PERAKITODAY Outstanding Figure in Banks Peninsula History Captain George Hempelman, or Hempleman, played an important part in the history of Banks Peninsula and Canterbury an'' today at Perale Bay beach a memorial Avill be unveiled to liini as Canterbury's first settlor. The inscription on the boulder cairn, surmounted by a whale pot, reads as follows :— "Erc::lt?(I to commemorate the centenary of thf l first white settler in Canterbury, New Zealand, Captain George He in pel man, who i/jinbiishe*; a whaling station at in 183,>." ;*!)* RoWrt UiilH-re. v. h«> i.-- .i^. 1 . ,> 11-.: a.."i .-.pt tit ,ii;> <. .-.i ti«-. i'.'i'.t '.i i-i'.a;: !:;• sf aln.-;:, u ill j perform the LinvJlih:,'' ccii .m

Valuable Whale Oil Industry Thi.- ail indnsUy :■s.riitrlt-ii sbi; l'-i A* : I v It'-, tl> iS LVilfit i:i [ iSy "thirties" of last tar. .a ;a. die t:. -1. i ■'■'!' Wa.nple | in .A,.;;':-, i I ill - "..-•ii el'ie, ' 5) '• i .U', aalied ai i.\ raid v. ith ■>.-s and so,.a 1 , ii<a\ ; ;hi ;.y jit;!:! - I'im.'Ul \ '.ii lll.tJ 'ka I V0:1i ii i,;,5,V7 < p. sale. i;a-. Tory Channel ami a;. SW Ur.iia-v.v.Ki a'apiain . i'»n ::S.<i J ti-sri'.'.-ltna;! >«tii •. iiaVv" start lilt.* Ui-.Vi' lai aa \ Pesaad for r.'ii;;K • l, ns; ha ■ c Wan w; y pk m. iJ'ui r,-:::! I iJark.- ; Vain.-as.. Yhe ii!--h'/spi table c..;:sl 'i 1i i ansa to uie };•!;; j:! \ , T i'i.'a (."■''' Vi i i'i< ■0. I 01' it was K.-"o «<».*. *n fir, mai 'i'e I !*> ti ill]!.', i in' A,.','a I 1 ]v.;s; • • .., j ; . • i ; cc-ks !>V v t.r N-aia ('ape thai the "Bee"' iii.-.at'. a-av.vd '• aid ; |: a '• ai \ condition. (i"i .Inly "• that same year, try-,.;'/,.;; :i• ic*l other /'ear ia-ii'ia' Fit behini.l. Ihe i"% aaain -aiiFa for Sydney a.i'ri\'i.'!,'i' there on August IK All hands far Pur; hooper in Fa Jay-, !F mpelrraa. fniaily landed !•■!! laa "Dublin Packet'' at Per- j aid on ilarch 20. 1837 and all hands ; set to work ill onrr.ost to put up 1 blubber run. grating.-;, try-works, and I other whaliii/.",' plan;, an wail as mart' | suitable building's to live in. The daily j routine included chasinr; whale 5 and j natives weie employed to erect a dwelling - of sawn timber .far the Captai-'.. with stare-house raid office close by. From tins lane onwards until is.; 1 iteaipeimaii was in continuous vecapatiau and the whaling- station which must have produced a prodigious amount of whale oil and whale Dune. A Hardy Sea Captain Porn at A!i:-.,na, til'. chiei city of .Scales-.vi;;; idol stein on September 10, ;.i; early a> ! :'- servim.-,' before the ! canst and oemy ei a inunst- ! ch.a aeier !a ri.c- is d constant { i.-roivuiiun a irii in i«•>;.> he v:a.s in ! f.sumana <a' 'h > whnlin;-' baig the i i- J;ao. :; In !'i'.-. booa "ia-raki :pulr- | lished in lillO al Oa'aid, Fa-land, tar j P. A. Aiiaon, \'.'hu in si, nn. t C-aptain 1 he luui L'Oi'V'Ji.. ins ; ei':dd ;)i'opei'ty, ■' makes tin' loilav, n.',' .s.a.tenie.'.a. i* : "! '• ; Cia i! iJ ia i:, tilt! lil'Sl, Etti'O- ? jjoau to start a shore whaling stalioii cne wild coast and aniOiiQ the can'nibal Ngai Tariu Maoris, of the South (then called middle) Island, of New Zealand--" List of "Hands" at Peraki The "Pei'aki Log" records the list of hands 'on the books' at Peraki -whaling' station 1836-S. There were thirty oiia, includinjv Billy Simpson, who later lived at Akaroa and James Robinson Glough. A farther twentythree were mentioned in .'slop accounts' for 1839. Two of the men were drowned in 1837 and three in 1839. No Dircct Descendant Kempelnian had. no direct descendants. One daughter, died at Peraki and' was buried in the cemetery there. Mr Geo. Whelch of Akaroa is directly i connected with Hempelman and his