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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 15, Issue 2 (May 1, 1940.)

Days in Auckland

Days in Auckland.

Another record of the short time spent in Auckland before going to Waipu says: “The migrants found good friends in Auckland. Chief among these was Dr. (afterwards Sir) Logan Campbell. He advanced to some of them money, without security. He also bought a section near the entrance to the Waipu River and presented it to the people as a school site. Another good friend was Mrs. Alexander Dingwall, mother of David M. Dingwall, who left a bequest worth nearly a quarter of a million pounds, to found the Dingwall Orphanage at Auckland. Mrs. Dingwall kept a grocer's shop and as she spoke Gaelic it was easy for the old people to deal with her. During his stay in Auckland the Rev. Norman McLeod held Gaelic services in a hall in Symonds Street and preached in English several times in St. Andrew's Church—the mother Presbyterian church of the Auckland province…. Most of the people settled at Waipu but a few families went to Whangarei Heads. Here they bought land from Dr. Logan Campbell…. A receipt from the Surveyor-General's office for one of the migrant's land purchases is given thus: ‘Received from Mr. Duncan McKay the sum of £400 sterling, being the amount for the purchase of 800 acres of land situated at Mangawai, Waipu, at ten shillings an acre, five per cent. for roads and five per cent. for surveys being deducted. Reader Wood, deputy surveyor-general'.”