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 came to Pigeon Bay in 1843, and assisted in building the first house there. It was all thatch work with a clay floor. He also assisted in building Mr. Greenwood’s house at Purau, and Mrs. Gebbie’s at Teddington. In 1853 he went to Scotland by Melbourne. On his return he, in conjunction with the author’s father, took up a run of some 35,000 acres in the Mackenzie Country. He then bought a farm at Temuka, and settled on it, and in 1864 the Mackenzie Country station (called Tekapo) was sold. Mount John there takes its name from him. He was a successful farmer, and has left a family of one son and four daughters.

Ebenezer Hay, Mrs. Hay, James (born June 10th, 1841, at Petone), Thomas Orr, William, Hannah L., Agnes (now Mrs. W. G. Gardiner, Glasgow), 1840-50, Robert, 1850 (before December 16th), Marion (now Mrs. John Guthrie), Mary (now Mrs. Thomas Orr Guthrie), Mary, Edwin. Mr. Hay left the Clyde in October, 1839, and arrived in Wellington in 1840. He remained in Wellington for a little over two years. Before leaving Scotland he purchased land there to be chosen in the North Island on his arrival in New Zealand. It transpired, however, that the