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 were sawing and cutting down timber in Pigeon Bay for use in Lyttelton along with some twenty or twenty-one others at the time of the arrival of the first four ships. They remained until news came of the first rush to the Melbourne diggings, when they all left in a body. The writer did not know the names of any of the others, but he quite well remembers his father supplying them with stores and beef, for which he took timber as payment.

“Paddy” Woods, Mrs. Woods, William, Maggie (now Mrs. Michael Hart), 1840-50. Mr. Woods was living in Akaroa in the ’forties, where he was at one time connected with the whaling industry, which he abandoned in 1844. In 1841-2 he purchased a whaling station from Philip Ryan at Oashore. After this he worked in conjunction with J. Price at Ikaraki until he gave up whaling in 1844. He had a hotel in Akaroa towards the end of the ’forties. It stood close to Bruce’s Hotel, where Garwood’s store now stands. When the Californian diggings broke out he went to them, and never returned. His family lived in Lyttelton for many years.

Dr. William Donald, 1850, came out in 1849 in the ship Cornwall. He landed at