Friday 1:47 pm
7th August 2020 ·
Tuesday 9:36 pm
11th August 2020 ·
James Broom field, Alfred Ray, George Hamilton, Patrick Meagher, the Wiles, Page, and White families in Whitford all made charcoal in turf covered
kilns and sold it in big bags in Auckland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Peter Brady, a Howick publican, pegged out a site at the corner of the main road and William Broomfield donated land for a school
Tuesday 9:29 pm
11th August 2020 ·
Martin Kelly lived for many years in the old Nathan homestead (Whitford) which was burned in 1944.
Tuesday 9:17 pm
11th August 2020 ·
Also found this info..... Martin Kelly leased Motukaraka the island as a ram paddock, as well as grazing cattle and goats.
Sunday 12:09 am
9th August 2020 ·
Martin Kelly picked up gold nuggets, enough to fill a small bag valued at £150 in Te Puru Stream in 1930 but a traveller given a bed for the night at his Te Puru home disappeared with the bag of gold.
Sunday 12:01 am
9th August 2020 ·
. Martin Kelly used his bullock team to extract rimu and kahikatea in the Whitford hills until about 1910. Sawmills were established near Cemetery Bridge in Whitford Park Road, at the end of Brownhill Rimu in Wades Road and at the end of Waikopua Road.
Friday 1:52 pm
7th August 2020 ·
On Million Graves website is his grave
Martin Kelly's headstone.