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 but a Maori woman, who was on board swam with him, and, supporting him till he reached the rocks, saved his life. In gratitude for this, Mr. Bruce kept the woman in food and clothes for the remainder of her life, and, on her death, educated and supported her little girl till she also died. Mr. Bruce was never married. He was a liberal-minded man, and of great use to the early settlers.

Joseph Price, 1830-40, Mrs. Price, Rebecca (now Mrs. Robert Manson), Jane, Joseph, Junr., William, Thomas, Charles, Hannah, Maggie, Maria, Alfred, Albert, Louisa. Mr. Price came to New Zealand in 1832, and slept one night in the great fortified Maori pa at Kaiapoi before it was taken and destroyed by Te Rauparaha. Mr. Price was connected with the shore whaling at Ikeraki on the south side of Banks Peninsula, where he remained for a number of years. When the whaling eventually failed he sold out to the late Mr. Hugh Buchanan, and removed to what is now called Price’s Valley. Here he carried on dairy farming, and had stock besides in cattle and sheep. Sometimes he took his cheese by whaling boat on Lake Ellesmere from his own valley to