Run No. 4

I have not so far discovered a name for this run. It was first taken up by Sir William Congreve, a son of the inventor of an explosive rocket for military purposes. Congreve did not hold it long before he transferred the run to Alfred George Jenkins of Enner Glynn, Nelson.

A. G. Jenkins was born at Newport, Monmouthshire in 1813; married Harriette Lane in 1841. and they sailed soon after in the Lord Auckland for New Zealand, arriving at Nelson in February 1842. Jenkins was an energetic man. By 1845, he and Matthew Campbell were running the flour mill on land adjoining the Maitai River and the Eel Pond in Nelson. He acquired 2,000 acres of land behind Nelson which he called Enner Glyn after his home in Wales, and also three sections near Richmond. (Note: Jenkins spelt Enner Glynn in New Zealand, whereas the place in Wales is spelt Ener Glyn, reason unknown.) He was secretary of the Nelson College Board of Governors for a few years.

Jenkins found difficulty in getting wool away from his property in the Wairau, and his wife worried that he might drown crossing the Wairau River on his many trips to his run. This caused him to dispose of his land in that quarter to his neighbour Edward David Sweet in 1854.