BURNHAM WHARF
ORIGIN OF ITS NAME
An error into which future historians may easily fall is to connect the name of the Burnham Wharf at Miramar with Lord Burnham, whose death has just been announced, especially as Lord Burnham happened to be in Wellington at the time the wharf was building.
The Burnham Wharf derived its name from Burnham. Water, the name givju in 1840 by Colonel AVakefield to the lagoon then existing at Miramar, an illustration of which was published in "The Post" a few days ago. This sheet of water, which originally covered 213 acres, .was called by the Maoris Te Roto Kura, or Red Lake, but Wakefinld renamed it after Burnham-Essex, the home of Edward Wakofield, father of Edward Gibbon Wakefickl, and probably the birthplace of Colonel William Wakefield.
When the late Lord Burnham was in Wellington in 1925 after the Press Conference held fliat year in Melbourne he was , taken with other delegates on n trip round the harbour.- A visit was paid by the launch' to Miramar, and there the beginnings of what had already been named the Burnham Wharf were inspected. Lord Burnham subsequently I expressed gratitude at tho honour which I had been paid him by naming the wharf ' after him, and it devolved upon the chairman o£ the Harbour Board to explain tactfully that tho wharf's name had a, totally different derivation.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 19, 22 July 1933, Page 5
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230BURNHAM WHARF Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 19, 22 July 1933, Page 5
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