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Alfred Rhodes, Mrs. Rhodes, 1840-50, arrived in Wellington in 1845, and in Lyttelton in 1849. He was a waterman, in partnership with James Cook, next mentioned.
James Cook, 1840-50, was a waterman in Lyttelton, where he arrived in 1849. He was the owner of some property in Decanter Bay, and eventually bought out Mr. T. S. Duncan, in that district.
William Pratt, Mrs. Pratt, 1840-50, arrived in Lyttelton in 1849, where he was a draper for a time, in partnership with a Mr. Fraser. Afterwards he moved to Christchurch, where he established Dunstable House drapery establishment.
List of men employed in the whaling industry at Peraki under Captain Hempelmann in 1836-9:—
John Turner, Benjamin Bing, Angus Daniel, John Johnson, J. Miller, Philip Relow, John Smith, Henry Rummage, Thomas Kain (the last three were drowned on July 7th, 1839), William Cranston, David Williams, Peter Higgins, George Watson, Alfred Roberts, la Marbe, George Thomas Dalton, Samuel Colley, Henry Ramsday, Charles Bruce, Wee Leveck, Manuel, Simeon Crawley, William Kelly, Jack Walkabout,
