REUNION PLANNED

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31089, 18 June 1966, Page 7

REUNION PLANNED

Decendants Of Joseph Price About 115 descendants of Captain Joseph Price, trader, explorer, navigator, whaler, and finally farmer, and his wife Jane, are to have a family re-union next weekend. The second to sixth generations will be represented by members from the North Island, Kaikoura, Cheviot, and Christchurch. There will be a buffet dinner at Elizabeth House next Saturday evening and on Sunday at 2 p.m. the Rev. R. C. Aires will conduct a family service in the Anglican Church at Little River. After the church service the gathering will go to the site of the original homestead then known as Kelvin Grove, in Prices Valley. The present house, which is not the original, is now part of the Willisden Estate.

Captain Price was born In England in 1810 and went to sea when he was 13. His first acquaintance with New Zealand was in 1828. In that year he was engaged by a Sydney ropemaker and he joined the Victoria, trading in flax to Port Cooper.

In 1839, Captain Price set up a whaling camp at Ikoraki. For timber he went to Little River which was populated by one Maori and his three children.

Captain Price married Jane Scott, of Sydney, in 1848, and they had 11 children—six sons and five daughters. In 1852, after several years of whaling, Captain Price bought 2550 acres in what is now known as Price’s Valley.