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Port Molyneux : the story of Maori and pakeha in South Otago : a centennial history : commemorating the landing of George Willsher and his companions at Willsher Bay, June 28, 1840 : with a programme for the unveiling of the centennial cairn, erected by the Clutha County Council, June 28, 1940

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The claim of Mr. Thomas Jones having been disallowed, Willsher and Russell were in a grave difficulty.

Included in some early official correspondence, there is a note attached to a letter to D. Wakefield, dated Otago, 13 June, 1844, in which Mr. Tuckett says:

“Immediately South of the Mouth of the Kunesoo (Karoro), Molineux Bay, on the seashore, three or four good houses have been erected, two of which are occupied, the one by Mr. Wilshire, the other by Mr. Russell, the former the agent of some party in Sydney, the latter as proprietor of land which he purchased of the same party in Sydney. Mr Wiltshire has cleared and partially cultivated about 10 acres of land; Russell less than half that quantity. They have no acknowledged claim.”