The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Nelson, Marlborough & Westland Provincial Districts]
Wakapuaka
Wakapuaka.
Wakapuaka is an extensive district, the centre of which is about eight miles north-east of Nelson. It faces Tasman Bay, and is in the county of Waimea. Suburban residences have been built along the Wakapuaka road, from Nelson to the Glen, which has some pretty bush scenery. It is here that the Boulder Bank of Nelson harbour commences, and omnibuses run daily to the place, which is a popular resort for visitors. There is also a coach service to Wakapuaka, which is on the road to Cable Bay, and the route to Havelock and Blenheim. The Wakapuaka district is devoted to sheepfarming and dairying.
Mr. O'Beirne, H. G. , Farmer, Hillwood, Nelson. Mr. O'Beirne owns a suitably subdivided run of 1500 acres, purchased by him in 1894 and 1902. The property is exceptionally well-watered by springs on different parts of the land, and carries 3000 sheep, besides cattle and horses. It has a frontage of one mile to the Wakapuaka Road, and is eight miles distant from the city of Nelson.
Residence of Mr. H. G. O'Beirne, Hillwood.
Mr. W. H. Turner.
Mr. George Frost , an old settler of Wakapuaka, Nelson, was born in Ashbourne, Sussex, England, in the year 1839. He came to New Zealand with his parents in 1849, in the ship “Mariner,” and landed in Wellington. Mr. Frost served an apprenticeship to the butchering trade with Mr. H. Hargreaves, Nelson, and was afterwards employed by the late Major Richmond for a number of years. Subsequently, he settled in Wakapuaka, where, for upwards of forty years, he was engaged in the wholesale butchering business. Mr. Frost has been a member of the Hillside school committee, and has also been a member of Court Pride of the Forest. Ancient Order of Foresters, for thirty years. He married a daughter of the late Mr. William Northern, who was killed in the Wairau massacre. Mrs Frost died in November, 1904, leaving six sons and one daughter.
Tyree, Photo.
Mr. G. Frost.
Mr. George Kinzett , sometime of Wakapuaka, was a son of one of the pioneers of Nelson, and came out from the Old Country by the ship “Thomas Harrison.” He was born in 1834 in Warwick, England. Though quite a boy when he arrived in Nelson, he remembered the present site of Nelson city when it was waste land and just being surveyed. Early in life he chose farming for his calling. He was very successful, and in later life enjoyed the well-earned fruits of his labour. Mr. Kinsett was proud to be called one of the early pioneers—those courageous men and women who put up with so much in making homes for their own families, and enabling others to do the same later on with a degree of security and comfort unknown at the dawn of settlement. Latterly he lived in a comfortable dwelling, made of stone and clay, which he helped to build. The house was surrounded by shrubs and trees, and he and Mrs Kinzett enjoyed an honoured old age in well deserved peace and comfort. They had had three children. Mrs Kinzett came out in the ship “Bolton.” Mr. Kinzett died on the 25th of October, 1901.
The Late Mr. G. Kinzett and Mrs Kinzett.