VISITORS FOR CENTENNIAL
DESCENDANTS OF DISTINGUISHED FIGURES With the Akaroa National centennial celebrations only a year away it is quite time the .Akaroa centennial committee or the National Historical committee got in touch with the relatives of those who played an important part i". Akaroa's and Banks Peninsula's early history. Included among these are the relatives of Governor Hobjon, Captain Stanley, Messrs C. B. Robinson and Murphy, the magistrates present at the hoisting of the flag at Green Pcint, and on the French side Commodore Lavaud, Capt:vin L'Anglois:, M. Jacques L'Anglois, M. M. St. Croix and Eugene de Belligny. A letter recently received from Honolulu gives information of the Robinson family. The first magistrate, C. B. Robinsor, married Miss Sinclair of Holmes Bay and Mrs Robinson and her son went to the Hawaiian Islands about iSGO. The son, Aubrey Robinson, died last year and was then a millionaire controlling a lax*ge estate. He \v.i& an extremely reserved man and people rai'ely got to knovV him. His eldest : or. is Sinclair Robinson of Makavveli, Kanai, Hawaiia l Islands, and he has a younger brother, Selwyn, living at .the same address. The R. inu?on brothers should be inl viteo to visit Akaroa for the centennial celebrations. The list of descendants of the j Nanto-Bordelaise Company's immigrants is at present being traced. The tr&cing of these early families will take a long time and a start cannot be made too soon to get in touch with them. j
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LXIII, Issue 6521, 28 March 1939, Page 2
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245VISITORS FOR CENTENNIAL Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LXIII, Issue 6521, 28 March 1939, Page 2
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