MANUKAU PIONEERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22877, 4 November 1937, Page 15

MANUKAU PIONEERS

Sir, —At the week-end I and some friends visited Cornwall is, in the Manukau Harbour, and spent a very interesting day wandering about there and on Puponga Point at the end of the peninsula, forming the reserve, on which stands the monument erected to the memory of Mr. McLaugldan, who presented the reserve to the people, and also to the memory of tlio "Brilliant" pioneers, who landed there in 18-11. From this point, the highest in the reserve, a very lino view of the Manukau is obtained, but it will soon be shut out-by pine trees, which have been planted there. Fortunately the view out to sea and of the heads is too exposed for trees to grow there. There is nothing to show if those who landed from the Brilliant ever established themselves at Cornwallis, unless it is the remains of what must at the time, or long ago, have been a beautiful garden and surroundings, where various old Eng? lisli flowers still grow in the grass, and iig trees and other fruit trees are to be seen, and a row of very okl macrocarpas, which must be Gft. through at the base of the trunks. Perhaps some of the readers of your' paper may be i'ble to give a few particulars of this historic spot. G.F.S.