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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Mr. W. P. Brown

Mr. W. P. Brown, Old Colonist, Bay of Islands. Mr. Brown was one of those early Colonists who have had a very varied experience of life in New Zealand. He died in September, 1896, at his residence, Te Wahapu, at the ripe old age of eighty-two years. The late Mr. Brown first landed in the Bay of Islands in 1836, a shipmate and fellow-apprentice of his being the late Captain Oakley. For three and a half years after landing in New Zealand, Mr. Brown was mate of the Church Mission schooner. “Columbine,” and during his cruises in that vessel he gained a considerable insight into the various phases of Maori character. At the outbreak of the native war in 1845, be with his wife and two little children, had to abandon their home at Te Wahapu. Before this, in 1840, he had engaged in ship-building in the Bay of Islands, much frequented then by English and American whalers, as many as thirty or forty often lying in the harbour at one time. Of his four sons, two are connected with the firm of Messrs. Lane and Brown, shipbuilders at Totara, another is following the same trade at Fremantle, West Australia, and the fourth is living at Te Wahapu.

Thr Late Mr. W. P. Brown.

Thr Late Mr. W. P. Brown.