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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Shine, Patrick

Shine, Patrick, Storekeeper, Kaukapakapa. Mr. Shine was born in Tipperary in 1852, and came to the Colonies in 1854. He was educated in Auckland, and at the age of sixteen served as a volunteer under Col. Harrington against the rebels at Tauranga. His experience in the Colony has been a varied one; he was in business in Christchurch for a while and was afterwards on the Thames goldfields, but when hard times set in there he turned his attention to the gum trade, with which he has been connected ever since. He was with the Walker Gum Company for a time, and since then has been interested in general store-keeping, and the purchase and sale of gum in the Great Barrier Island, Tekao, Awanui, Hohoura, Kauaeranga, Mercury Bay, Tairua, Kaukapakapa, and Waiharera, where his headquarters are at present situated. His business operations extend over a radius of some twenty miles, and not infrequently include large transactions in general produce. He married the daughter of Mr. Neil McLennan, shipbuilder, of Auckland, and has three sons and three daughters.