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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Hart, William P

Hart, William P. , Photographer, Beach Street, Queenstown. Mr Hart has a large number of splendid negatives of the most attractive scenery in Southland, the cold Lakes district, Sutherland Falls, and the Sounds. He was the first photographer to take a photograph of the Sutherland Falls, and did so in the year 1883, five years before any other photographer saw them. Mr Hart personally reported the genuineness of the discovery to Mr McKerrow, the Surveyor General, at Wellington, in the beginning of May of that year, and afterwards supplied the Government with photographs of the falls and scenery on the way from Milford Sound. Again, in 1888, at the request of Mr C. W. Adams, Chief Surveyor for Otago, Mr Hart gave information regarding the country he had visited before any track had been constructed by the Government. It was Mr Hart who named the Sutherland Falls after Mr D. Sutherland, the explorer; who, in turn, named Mount Hart, where the river takes its rise, after Mr Hart. Both of these names were subsequently confirmed by the Survey Department. Mr Hart also supplied the late Mr Quinton McKin-non with photographs of the mountains in the vicinity of the Sutherland Falls, and they must have assisted in the discovery of the pass from the Clinton Valley. As long ago as 1879, Mr Hart was awarded a medal and certificate at Sydney Exhibition; and in 1881 he gained the first degree of merit at Dunedin-also at In-vercargill, in the same year-and at Christchurch, in 1882, for exhibits of photographs.