Friends of Gabriel Read
Reference by “J.M.” last week to Peter Robertson, the shepherd with whom Gabriel Read stayed oh his momentous journey to Tuapeka, recalls more about the Robertsons. Peter Robertson was employed by Mr. John Cargill as head shepherd on the Tuapeka run, and his hut was on the track between Dunedin and Tuapeka. When the rush set in hundreds of miners passing to and fro were indebted for many kindnesses to Mr. and Mrs. Robertson, and it was no uncommon experience to find 30' miners there in a single night, sleeping on the floor, a lane being kept from the kitchen table to the camp oven so that Mrs. Robertson could continue making bread for the numerous callers. During his stay in the district, Gabriel Read “constituted the worthy couple his bankers, and kept up a correspondence with them to the time of his death in 1894.—D.W. (Waipavva). /
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 154, 27 March 1937, Page III (Supplement)
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151Friends of Gabriel Read Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 154, 27 March 1937, Page III (Supplement)
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