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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Errata
Errata.
Page 92. Mr. Percival C. Neill is Vice-Consul for France at Dunedin, not Consul.
Page 103. Mr. John Bryce Thomson arrived in Port Chalmers in 1864, not 1884.
Page 118. The Hon. Hugh Gourley entered the Dunedin City Council in 1886, not 1885. He was married in 1849, not 1850.
Page 243. “Tamahawk” Road Board, in the late Mr. John White's article, should read “Tomahawk” Road Board.
Page 352. Messrs Nimmo and Blair. Mr. Nimmo's initials, under the photograph of the partners, should be J. H., not J. J.
Page 439. The hill in the picture is wrongly named Pukiviti. Pukiviti hill is about six miles from Palmerston, nearer Shag Point.
Page 445. Mr. Malcolm Allan. Mr. Allan should have been spoken of as having been, but not as being, a member of the Palmerston Borough Council.
Page 488. It was in the Waitaki (not the Waimate) district that Mr. James Robertson settled, in September, 1877.
Page 501. The floor of the Oamaru reservoir is 235 feet; the surface, 280 feet; the longest flume is 600 feet, and the highest trestle, 95 feet.
Page 734. In the second line of the late Mr. William Shore's article, “Ceneral" should be “General.”
Page 779. In the first word of the last line of the second column, the “i” dropped out in process of printing off.
Page 878. In the second last line of Mr. George Williamson's article, an “e “has dropped out of the word “gardener.”
Page 901. At the end of Mr. George Carlaw's article, his father-in-law's name is wrongly spelt “Linert.” It should be spelt “Lienert.”
Page 902. In the article on the Fortrose Public School, “playgroung" should be “playground.”
Page 948. The Orepuki Advocate has six pages. Mr. Lyon was born in 1873.