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Journal of the Nelson and Marlborough Historical Societies, Volume 1, Issue 2, November 1982

(W. T. Pratt) An Old Colonist–Colonial Experiences – (1877)

(W. T. Pratt) An Old Colonist–Colonial Experiences – (1877)

Pratt landed in Nelson on 6th February 1843 from the ship Indus. Believing that the arrival of the vessel would be celebrated as a gala day the author landed in holiday costume wearing a black cloth cut-away coat and a bell topper. However, the men had to wade a few yards ashore from the boat which ferried passengers from the Indus, and in doing so he alighted from the boat on a treacherous boulder and fell prone.

Tuckett was succeeded by William Fox as Nelson's resident agent. Fox was a barrister who had emigrated to Nelson in 1842 and had supported the New Zealand Company's methods in a small booklet –