1 TN, 9/1/1886, p. 3.

2 HS, 10/6/1954.

3 CNZ, VI, p. 166.

4 CNZ, VI, p. 47; HS, 25/1/1943.

5 TH, 9/1/1886.

6 Pamela Brewer, ‘Starting a Farm at Cardiff page 293 in Taranaki’, Historical Journal: Auckland-Waikato, 24, April 1974, p. 31; Owen Mander, Cardiff School and District Centennial, [Cardiff, 1886], p. 5.

7 HS, 7/1/1886.

8 This account of Stratford on 6 January 1886 and of the fires over the following days is mainly an intricate collation of items from HS, TH and TN for the period 7/1/1886—16/1/86.

9 See p. 1 above.

10 TH, 29/3/1955 (Obituary of Mrs Catherine Curtis).

11 Waipawa Mail, 28/1/1886 (reprinting from Auckland Star).

12 EP, 20/1/1886. Death certificate of Alice, wife of late Edward Gilshnan, 25/3/1944. For Joseph Belcher's reminiscences see Cardiff Co-operative Dairy Factory Company Limited: Diamond Jubilee 1891–1951, [New Plymouth, 1951], pp. [4]—[5]]. Joseph dates the fire as 8/1/1886, and has the two men continue the fight for his place till 3 the following morning.

13 Cardiff Co-operative Dairy Factory Co. Lid: Diamond Jubilee, p. [5].

14 TH, 9/1/1886.

15 TH, 8/1/1886.

16 TH, 9/1/1886.

17 William Henry Skinner, ‘Diary 1886’, MS, Taranaki Museum.