SANDYS, Edward Roper Stapleton

Surveyor and Staff Paymaster with HMS Opal commanded by Capt. Bosanquet cruising New Zealand coast 1888 and 1889–90. Was at Akaroa 13 March 1888, Williamstown and Port Chalmers Oct. and Nov. 1889, Lyttelton Dec. 1889, returned to Sheerness Aug. 1890. Sandys was appointed Assistant Paymaster 23 Mar. 1866, Paymaster 19 July 1880, Staff Paymaster 19 July 1886. Made drawings of the landscape and of plants. Represented: Turnbull and Hocken.