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CO THE EDITOR Sir, —You are to be complimented on your fine issue of the 16th, but my attention has been drawn to an error in it where at page 20 there is a photograph under which is written, “ The first Puketoi Station homestead established by the Shennan brothers in Central Otago in the sixties.” When that building of day was put together in 1860 it formed the Tree Gully Station, owned by Messrs W. D. and James Murison. A photograph of the former is given in the same issue at page 15. The name Tree Gully went out of use about 1862. the Maori name Puketoi (a shortening of Puketoitoi) being substituted for it. In or about 1865 a commodious house was built, and the pioneer building fell from its former high estate to a position of lowliness. The Murison brothers sold the Puketoi Station to Mr Watson Shennan, who took possession on September 7, 1869. I am, etc.. H. Beattie. Waimate, September 18.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23044, 21 November 1936, Page 21
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