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 living at Fox Glacier and, on retirement in 1964 at Fernside near Rangiora as already mentioned.

Patrick McGavin qualified as a barrister and solicitor with an office on Lambton Quay in Wellington for many years. Following the end of his first marriage in the mid-1950s he departed for Australia, where he eventually became Head of the legal department of a tertiary establishment in Adelaide and where he had four children by his second marriage as per the genealogy chart. A son by his first marriage was a lecturer in anthropology at Sydney University until his premature death.

The activities of Mick Sullivan and his sister Mary (Kerr) have been reported above.

Mick’s son, Maurice, and his son, Tim still farm at Fox Glacier. When the hotel was sold in 1995, ownership at that time being vested in Mary Kerr’s two children, Anne and Simon, they both moved to Christchurch to live.

James Sullivan, brother of Mick and Mary also farmed at Fox Glacier throughout his life and also farmed land at Jacobs. His descendants continue the farming tradition. Michael farms the land at Fox and Jacobs and John is in partnership running a dairy farm.

Both Kathleen and Patricia Sullivan married into the well-known Nolan family in South Westland. Kathleen raised her family with Steve at Whataroa. She had been afflicted with infantile paralysis as a young girl. She died suddenly of a stroke, age 51 and Steve eventually remarried Mary Mitchell but there were no children of this second union. Patricia raised her family at Okuru near Haast. She also died rather young at 56 years of age. John Jnr and Molly