DESCENDANTS OF PASSENGERS BY THE MAGNET

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21910, 23 March 1933, Page 8

DESCENDANTS OF PASSENGERS BY THE MAGNET

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Your correspondent “ Magnet ” is quite correct in his statement that there are many living descendants of passengers by the Magnet, but the difficulty is to trace them in order to inquire about their pioneering forefathers. In the Museum of the Otago Early Settlers’ Association, which richly deserves the praise lately given it by visiting authorities, there are several photographs of the Magnet pioneers, but it should still be possible to gather more. Could “Magnet” or any other person inform the writer as to the whereabouts of the descendants, or the photographs, of Messrs Paseoe, Hawkins, Glover, Pryor, William Coleman, Stratton, MTvenzie, Fuller, and Stanley, who were passengers on the Magnet in 1840. Another interesting man of that period was Mr Charles Windsor, information regarding whom I have been unable to gather. He was, I understand, the first day and Sunday school teacher in these parts before “the” settlement. The plate at Port Chalmers is to mark the spot where the John Wickliffe settlers arrived, such another plate should _be erected at Karitane or Matanaka, whichever is the proper place, and the landing places of the various forms of settlement at Otakou, Waikouaiti, Port Chalmers, and Dunedin would then each be properly marked.— l am, etc., INTERESTED. Dunedin, March 22.