The family background story...

Extract from Tyree Lives. ISBN: 9780473-680213.

William Tyree, I, (1820-89) brought his third wife, Ann Baker, and his three sons William II (age 16 years), Alfred (15 years), and Fred Tyree (age four 1/2 years) the children from his second marriage, with him to New Zealand. William and Ann Tyree had three more children born in New Zealand: Mary "Polly" Hodgman Tyree, born in 1872; John Baker (1874-75); and Edward George Tyree (born at Dunedin; 1878 - died at Dunedin in 1952). Mary "Polly" Tyree married William McKay Cannon (1866-1936), and they both died in Camberwell, Victoria, Australia. 

William Tyree, I, was fifty-one years and two months of age when he arrived in New Zealand aboard SS Otago on September 08, 1871. At first, William took his family to Queenstown, where he worked in his trade as a master bootmaker. His brothers James (a pioneering photographer) and Frederick (a carpenter) were already in business there. James, William, Edward and Frederick then worked together on the Skippers goldfield in Otago, NZ. From 1864 to 1869, they engineered the huge Tyree Cut to divert the Shotover River to access gold-bearing gravels on a sharp bend in the river. 

With Mr. F.R. Huff, William Tyree, I, opened a photographic business in Queenstown in 1873. In 1874, James and William Tyree, I, trading as Tyree Bros. had a Boot Manufactory business operating in Dunedin. William Tyree, I, died on August 14, 1889 at his Residence: Forth Place, Dunedin, aged sixty-nine years. He was buried in the Dunedin North Cemetery; Block 126A, Plot 1. Other family members in the same grave are: his third wife, Ann Catherine; his brothers Edward George (c. 1822-96) and Frederick Jeremiah (1832-1903); and one granddaughter: Winifred Rose Brocklebank, aged eleven years. 

JAMES TYREE, III, Pioneering photographer 

William's older brother, James Tyree, III, (June 1817 to August 13, 1896) was christened on August 02, 1818, at the Parish of St. Lawrence, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The 1841 Census of Addington, Ramsgate records him and his brother, William I as Shoemakers. James married Mary Hodgman Styles (1824-51) at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster, London on June 28 1847. They had one son, William Tyree, born around 1850, but Mrs. Mary Tyree died in 1851. Also in 1851, James exhibited several Daguerrotypes (an early type of  photograph) at The Great Exhibition, which was held in the Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London from May 01 to October 15, 1851. James exhibited along with his younger brother Alfred Tyree, a glass engraver, who did the image colouring. The 1851 Census records James Tyree, III, as an Artistic Photographer. 

Photography had its origins with the August 19, 1839, announcement of the invention of the Daguerrotype, in which photographs were made on a silver-coated plate, in the following manner: a silvered plate was sensitised with iodine vapour, which formed a layer of silver oxide. The plate was exposed in a camera, and the latent image developed by mercury vapour, the mercury adhering to those areas of silver iodide affected by the light. The plate was fixed with hypo-sulphite of soda, then dried over a flame. It was necessary for the final picture to be sealed beneath glass to protect the delicate mercury surface, and to prevent oxidisation of the silver, but the Daguerrotype was the most successful process yet invented. The French government released the formula, free of Patent; 'to make a positive image on a metal plate'. 

By 1841, Mr. Fox Talbot had perfected his own photographic process, capable of exposures of less than thirty seconds. By using silver iodide on writing paper, and coating it with gallo-nitrate of silver, the paper could be exposed and developed with an application of gallo-nitrate, then gently warmed. Positive prints were made by the same superimposition process as photogenic drawings. Talbot swiftly patented his process, which he named "calotype". He fixed his calotypes with hyposulfite of soda, the fixing properties of which had been discovered in 1819 by the scientist Sir John Herschel. The speed of the calotype enabled photographers to take portraits commercially. 

In 1851, Louis Daguerre died, and a new technique was invented - the wet colloidion technique of Frederick Scott Archer. This resulted from experiments with the use of glass as a base for photographs, in place of metal plates. Glass was lighter and cheaper than metal. Archer coated glass with an emulsion of iodised collodion, allowing it to dry before applying a coat of silver iodide. He then got better results by adding potassium iodide to the collodion, dipping the glass into a bath of silver nitrate solution, and exposing it while still wet. In its wet state, the new emulsion was so sensitive that exposures of less than three seconds became possible. The plate was developed with pyrogallic acid or ferrous sulphate, and fixed with either potassium cyanide or sodium thiosulphate. A good knowledge of chemistry was required. 

Because exposures were rigidly linked to the dark-room process, it became necessary for location photographers to carry their equipment with them including; a tent, boxes of plates, and dozens of chemical bottles. Huge 'landscape cameras', producing plates of 30.5 by 40.6 cm, and weighing up to 30 pounds were not uncommon. Stereoscopic photography became immensely popular by the time of The Great Exhibition in London in 1851. In 1858, the London Stereoscopic Company manufactured a pocket stereoscopic camera that weighed little over 400 grams, and was available to the masses. This fashion died out by the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.

James Tyree, III, emigrated to the goldfields of Victoria, Australia, with his brother Frederick Jeremiah in 1852. They sailed on the Cheapside and arrived at Port Phillip, in Victoria. James was first in business with photography at Ballarat, then at Maryborough, Ararat, and Stawell. In 1858 he was working in Deep Lead, Stawell, Victoria. James arrived in NZ in 1862, and was soon making a name for himself in the Upper Shotover goldfield, in Otago. In 1863 an Application for Protection was made by James Tyree, Frederic (sic) Tyree, Edward Tyree, James Mollinson, Mark Glass, and William Trokes; for the Maori Point and Wilsons Beach, Shotover, regions. A Wakatipu paper, Mining Intelligence, dated March 05, 1864, said: "The Tyree claim at Shellback Beach, Maori Point is remarkable for the large quantity of water. Two undershot water-wheels and a host of California Pumps are kept actively at work. The Perfect Cure claim is on very good gold, and is yielding well". Unquote. The Tyree brothers worked on that claim. On October 08, 1864, an iron rope was successfully fixed across the river for the new sluicing party near the New Channel Company's ground at Shellback Beach. 

Up to 1964, eight attempts had been made by miners to divert parts of the Shotover River, but floods would wash away their workings. In 1866 a group called Tyree and Party formed The New Channel Company, Ltd., expanding to twenty Shareholders, (four of whom were 'sleeping and furnishing'), while sixteen were working at the site below Sainsbury Terrace, Shotover River. The location is 44 degrees South, 168 degrees 40 minutes East. The New Zealand Gazette of January 30 1873 records: "The place of operations is at Section one, Block eleven, Shotover District, Province of Otago. The registered office of the Company will be situated at Ballarat Street, Queenstown. The nominal capital of the Company is 4,995 Pounds, in shares of one Pound each. The number of paid up shares is one hundred and fifty. The amount already paid up is two thousand five hundred and seventy-two Pounds ten shillings. The name of the Manager is James Francis Tully. The names and addresses and occupations of the shareholders, and the number of shares held by each at this date, are as follows: ..." Unquote.

To divert the Shotover River, extensive cuttings were required, for example at Arthur's Point, where eleven thousand Pounds was spent. James Tyree, III, engineered the Tyree Cut, blasting through a 100 foot high rocky promontory, creating a diversion channel for the river; 50 feet wide, and 400 feet long. Under the management of Mr Thackeray, by cutting through solid rock on a sharp bend, they gained access to around 500 feet of dry gold-bearing gravels. This massive task cost five thousands Pounds, over the five years from June 1864-69. [Notes from Mining and Surveyor Wright's Report]. It is unknown how much gold was recovered, but the area was especially rich. The site is very near the present-day bungy jumping operation, and the Shotover River tourist jet boats now speed through the Tyree Cut, which indicates its size. 

On April 11, 1866, the Tyree brothers took shares in The Alexandra Quartz Mining Co., to operate at Skippers, in the Wakatip District, Otago. James had 100 shares, and Frederick and George had fifty shares each. The Lake Wakatip Mail, dated October 22, 1868, wrote, "Mr. James Tyree has lately opened his photographic rooms" [so the fact of that date limits his goldmining to six years' work]. "He announces the procuration of two lenses from Dallmeyre & Co., the well-known firm who gained prizes at the Paris exhibition. We have inspected portraits taken by Mr Tyree, and must candidly pronounce them to equal anything we have seen taken in the Province". 

The Mail wrote in 1870, 'The Wakatip Regatta was a very successful affair. ... Some credit is due to the gentlemen who took so much interest in getting up the Regatta, foremost among whom was Mr James Tyree, photographer'. James helped re-establish the local amateur dramatic club in Queenstown. 

By 1869 there were 50,000 miners from six nations on the Otago goldfields. They included English, Irish, American and Chinese. Founded in 1848, between 1865 and 1900 Dunedin quickly became New Zealand's largest city, boosted by the goldrushes at Gabriels' Gully, Tuapeka River, and Lawrence, then at Shotover River. The Dunstan Trail went inland to Bendigo and the diggings. Gold was mined in quartz outcrops at Bendigo and Carrick. From the 1990s, the Dunstan Trail became an annual commemorative journey.

Records from the Dunedin Lands and Deeds office show: On November 04, 1870, a Grant No. 11379, under Otago Waste Lands Act 1866, to James Tyree, Photographer. Block XXIX, Town of Frankton, corner of Oxford, Cumberland and Cambridge Streets. Grant No. 11473, received February 01, 1872, to James Tyree, Photographer. Block XI, Nos 15 & 16, corner of Man and Hay Street, Queenstown. 

For a time from 1874, James Tyree, III, and his brother, William Tyree, I, ran a footwear manufacturing business in Dunedin. In late 1876, James went to Victoria, Australia, but later he came back to NZ. By 1884, James Tyree had moved his photographic Studio business to Dunedin. In 1887, at age sixty-nine years, James again returned to Stawell, Victoria. James Tyree, III, died aged seventy-nine years; on August 13, 1896, at the home of his sister, Mrs Mary Hodgman Brown; of "Fairmont", Selby Street, Stawell Borough, Victoria.

James Tyree, III, was one of the earliest photographers in New Zealand, but almost nothing is known about his career. His publicity espoused, 'James Tyree, Photographic Artist, Queenstown. (Late of Regent Circus and King William Street, London). Charges moderate'. He was at work in Great King Street, North Dunedin from 1884, and had taught his nephew William, II, (1855-1924) the photographic trade sometime between 1871 and 1876. James advertised thus: 'A large assortment of New Zealand scenery always on hand. This or any other photograph may be enlarged and coloured in Oil, Crayon, or Watercolours. All orders must be pre-paid. Tyree & Co., Highly Commended, NZ Exhibition 1885'.  

James Tyree, III, exhibited three frames of photographs of Otago scenery in the New Zealand Industrial Exhibition of 1885. 'James Tyree, Photographer, Queenstown' is the inscription on carte-de-viste portrait photographs, which are fairly common in the Queenstown locality. When James Tyree, III, died, he was referred to as, 'A gentleman of Seaby Street, Stawell Borough, County of Borung, Grampians Shire, Victoria'. Stawell was founded as 'Pleasant Creek', where gold was discovered in May 1853. It is located in the Wimmera region, 237 kilometers WNW of Melbourne. Gold mining ceased there in 1920. 

The Victorian gold rush was from 1851 to the late 1860s. Discoveries were made at Beechworth, Castlemaine (the richest shallow alluvial goldfield in the world), and Daylesford. Ballarat (110 km north-west of Melbourne) and Bendigo were the main fields. The greatest yield was in 1856, when 3,053,744 troy ounces = 94,982 kg was mined. From 1851-96, the Victorian Mines department reported that a total of 1,898,391 kg of gold was mined. In 1851 Victoria had a population of 5,000. It grew seven-fold in ten years. The Eureka Rebellion of 1854 was instigated by gold miners in Ballarat, who revolted against the colonial authority of the UK. Some reforms were then made, and the Electoral Franchise was granted to miners.

EDWARD GEORGE TYREE, I

(c. October 1822 - July 08, 1896) was born in Kent, England, and was christened on October 16, 1833, at St. Clement Danes Church, Westminster, London. Edward was a carpenter, and he married Louisa Matty (1826-55) around 1846. They lived at 18 Ship Yard, near the Inns of Court, St. Clement Danes; on the south side of Fleet Street, between Temple Bar and St. Clement Danes. Three children were born to them in London: Edward James II, (1847-1905), William Alfred (1850-86), and Louisa Mary Tyree (1851-54). William and Louisa Mary were christened together on May 25 1851 at St. Clement Danes. The family went to Victoria, Australia in 1853, and his wife, Louisa died on April 02 1855, aged twenty-nine years, after just eighteen months in Ballarat, She probably died in a tent encampment on the goldfield. 

Louisa's fourth child, Frederick Tyree, was born in February 1854 in Ballarat, and died aged just fourteen months; on April 04, 1855. (Death register No. 314). Their daughter, Louisa Mary Tyree had died two days earlier, at three years of age, and the children were buried together, in Collingwood, Melbourne. [We don't know what Louisa died of, but maternal deaths from childbirth complications were often as high as 10%, due to the poor water quality and sanitation conditions among miners. This was  twice the prevailing death rate]. Edward Tyree came to New Zealand at age forty years, aboard the City of Melbourne, arriving on September 15, 1862. By 1863, he was working with his brothers James Tyree, III, and Frederick Tyree at Shotover. In April 1866, they all took shares in the Alexandra Quartz Mining Co., and this indicates that the brothers had accumulated some capital. Edward died in the Dunedin Benevolent Shelter, on July 08, 1896, aged seventy-four years.

MARY HODGMAN TYREE

(April 09, 1829 - 1898) was born in London, Middlesex, England and christened on August 09, 1829, at St. Mary's Church, Marylebone, London. Her parents were then living at Drury Lane, Marylebone, London. Known as "Aunt Brown", she lived all her adult life in Melbourne, Australia, and married Thomas Brown in Victoria, Australia, in 1864. They probably had no natural children, and raised Mary's niece, Elizabeth Frances Tyree, born March 22, 1865. Thomas Brown died on April 17, 1879, aged fifty-four years. Mary died in Stawell, Northern Grampians Shire, Victoria on November 01 1898, aged sixty-four years. 

Their tombstone reads: In affectionate remembrance of Thomas Brown, formerly of Polesworth, Warwickshire; and late of Stawell, who suddenly departed this life at Melbourne on the 17th day of April 1879, aged 54 years. "Watch, therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of Man cometh". Matthew 25, verse 13. Also Mary Hodgman BROWN, wife of the above, who died at Stawell 1st November, 1898, aged 69 years. "Father, in thy glorious keeping, leave me now thy servant sleeping".

Mary Tyree-Brown left an extensive Will, leaving large plots of land and sums of money to her many nieces and nephews. Mary left two plots of land to her great-niece, Emily Mary Louisa Tyree (daughter of her late nephew William Alfred Tyree). Mary left four sections in Frankton, Otago, NZ, and two more sections in Queenstown, NZ, to Thomas Brown Norman, the son of her niece Elizabeth Frances Brown-Norman (nee Tyree). Mary's brother, Frederick Jeremiah Tyree had struggled financially in his life, having to declare bankruptcy while living in Dunedin North in a house owned by Mary. In her Will, she left 600 Pounds in a Trust, to be managed by F.J.'s nephew-in-law: William Brocklebank (married to Frances Hodgman Tyree, daughter of Mary and Frederick's older brother, William (Senior). This Trust was intended to generate an income sufficient to provide financial support for her brother during his life. Upon his death, whatever was remaining from the Trust could be retained by William Brocklebank. 

Fifty Pounds was left to a friend named Mrs Mary Eliza McLellan, and another fifty Pounds was left to a former employee named Mary Casen (nee Rickard). Mary left 300 Pounds to her nephew Edward Tyree (son of her late brother Edward George Tyree). For two of her great-nieces, Emily Mary Louisa Tyree and Pauline Rose Tyree (daughters of Mary's nephew William Alfred Tyree) Mary left 500 Pounds, "to be divided equally between them". Mary also left all of her personal effects to her adopted daughter, Elizabeth Frances Tyree, noting specifically: jewellery, ornaments, linens, pictures and clothing. She also left money to Elizabeth to distribute among family members and charities. In summary: her estate was valued at over 1,500 Pounds, plus the two plots of land, and six sections.

Sources: Otago Daily Times, Issue 7804, 23 February, 1887, Page 6. Otago Daily Times, Issue 8943, 23 October, 1890, Page 4.

FREDERICK JEREMIAH TYREE

(London; April 1832 to November 17, 1903, at Dunedin) was christened by The Rector, William Gurney, on April 23, 1832, at St. Clement Danes Church in London, Westminster, England. In 1833 his parents lived at 3 Brick Court, Great Shire Lane, London; and in 1841 they lived at Hemlock Court, London. Frederick became a carpenter, and in 1858 emigrated at age tywenty-six years to the main goldfield at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia (possibly to join his brother Edward). Ann "Annie" Jane Rhodes was born in 1841 at Camberwell, Kent, and emigrated at age eleven years. The Rhodes family came to Australia via Port Phillip, Victoria. Annie met F.J. Tyree while still a teenager, and their first child, Frances Hodgman Rhodes, was born on August 09, 1860, at Inglewood, near Ballarat, Victoria when Annie was aged nioneteen years. The baby was wrongly registered as a boy, and in her mother's maiden name, which caused some confusion for family researchers. 

Frederick Tyree, II, was born in Australia in 1861 (and died in 1863); and Emma Annie Tyree was born in 1864, at Queenstown, New Zealand. Frederick Jeremiah was working at Shotover in 1863. His daughters, Frances and Emma, were baptised together on April 01, 1866, at Queenstown by Bishop Selwyn. Mary Caroline Tyree was born in 1868 (she died in 1917), and Elizabeth Maud on February 18, 1870 (she died in 1970), also at Queenstown. Then came Fred Tyree, III, (1871-1901). 

During my research, I was surprised to find that Frederick J. Tyree II, already had a wife, Mary Ann Williams, whom he had married in 1853. Frederick Jeremiah and Annie Rhodes were finally legally married, in a secret ceremony conducted by the Reverend Richard Coffey at the Queenstown parsonage on February 01, 1871. Annie was so used to signing herself as Anne Jane Tyree that she had to cross out 'Tyree' and write 'Rhodes' on the Certificate. They already had six children, and another five were born to this colourful couple; Louisa Ada (1875-), Ernest Frank (1876-), Jane Florence (1878-1900), Thomas (1880-), and ending with Henry Hallows Tyree, born October 20, 1883, at Dunedin. His parents were then aged 51 and 41 years respectively. Frederick Jeremiah Tyree II was on the Skippers Goldfield in Otago, from 1871 with his two oldest brothers, William Tyree, I; and James Tyree, III.

About 1886, Annie was left 600 Pounds by her mother, and she lent 200 Pounds to her husband, F.J., which he used to pay his debts. In April 1889, F.J. started a business, Tyree & Brocklebank with his nephew-in-law. Creditors Smith & Smith, who were owed 16 Pounds 5 shillings, put the Bailiffs into the business in October 1890. The Otago Daily Times of October 15 reported that a Meeting of Creditors determined F.J. Tyree had Liabilities of 313 Pounds, and Assets of 96 Pounds; being 'stock-in-trade'; and furniture valued at 20 Pounds. Annie was still owed 200 Pounds, at 6% interest. F.J. was then made Bankrupt, and this may have ended their marriage. He died at the Dunedin Benevolent Shelter, in Caversham, Dunedin, on November 17, 1903, aged seventy-one years. Annie Rhodes-Tyree died in Petone, Wellington, on May 30, 1901. Their youngest son, Henry Hallows Tyree, died in 1939, and is buried at Taita, Lower Hutt. His descendants are living at Levin, North Island, NZ. 

ALFRED TYREE (Margate, Kent, UK; November 04, 1856 -1936 at Auckland) came to New Zealand aged fourteen years and ten months. Around late 1873, he walked from Skipper's Canyon to Dunedin, and was working at age seventeen years in his father's Dunedin footwear factory. He then joined the Dunedin staff of Michaelas, Hallenstein, and Farquhar. Alfred was later on the staff of Bing, Harris & Co., and in 1883 he moved to Christchurch as Manager of  Gavin, Gibson & Co., which he later purchased. Alfred married Alice Norman of Dunedin in 1886. In 1894 he owned a house, St. Lawrence, on Papanui Road in Christchurch. Their next home was Ngatawa, a lovely homestead with twelve acres of beautiful gardens, a stream and bush. It was situated on Glandovey Road, Wroxton Terrace and Idris Road. Alfred and Alice had three children: Jack, aka "JV", William aka "Will", and Iris Tyree. Alice was an excellent hostess, so they hired Carrie McPherson to help with the young family. Carrie soon took over the running of the household. Alfred Tyree served as a Christchurch City Councillor. 

His bootmaker business, Alfred Tyree & Co. was in Lichfield Street, Christchurch, and it thrived. Known formerly as  Gavin, Gibson & Co., it then traded as Bing, Harris & Co. Alfred was a very successful businessman, ultimately with offices in Auckland, NZ; and in London, UK. Unfortunately, their London-based company buyer (named Marcus) was discovered to be embezzling goods, and this required a journey to London in 1905 to put matters right. Alfred and Alice spent eight months travelling; their route went around Cape Horn to England, and back across Canadian territory to New Zealand. In 1915, Alfred disposed of his Christchurch interests after twenty-nine years, and moved to Auckland, establishing himself as an Indentor of footwear and drapery. He established footwear factories in six centres throughout New Zealand. Alfred Tyree died in Auckland in 1936, and Alice then returned to Christchurch, where she died in 1945. [These Notes were sourced from A Budget of News by Alice Tyree].

Alfred and Alice's second son, William Alfred "Will" Tyree, born on September 07, 1892, was a commercial traveller for his father until WWI intervened. Will  was five feet six inches tall, with brown eyes and hair, and joined the NZ Army in early 1915, aged twenty-two years. By August 1915, he was with the 3rd Battalian, Canterbury Regiment, NZEF at Gallipoli. In 1916, he made Lance Corporal, and was wounded in the foot in February 1917. William A. Tyree was treated in Tidworth Military Hospital, in Wiltshire, England. He was then a signaller in No.1 Company HQ, in Belgium. While out souveniring on the battlefield on October 04, 1917, he was shot in the heart by a German sniper, and, 'fell back, and died without a word'. William was buried in Tyne Cot British Cemetery, north east Ypres [now Ipres], Belgium. He lies in Plot 36, Row B, Grave 13. Although he died four years prior, William A. Tyree was an uncle to Alfred William "Bill" Tyree, who was later made O.B.E..

Sir ALFRED WILLIAM 'Bill' TYREE, O.B.E. 

Alfred Tyree's grandson was Sir Alfred William "Bill" Tyree, O.B.E., born on November 04, 1921, in Remuera, Auckland, New Zealand. He was the author's second cousin once removed. At age eight years, Bill built his mother an electric toaster from a kerosine tin. Engineering was, 'in the blood'. His maternal grandfather, William Frederick Burrow (1864-1940) was a Civil Engineer who built bridges, and was Chief Engineer for Sydney underground railways. In 1938 when aged 16, Bill and his family moved to Sydney, Australia, and he was apprenticed to O'Donnell Griffen. Bill obtained a Six-year Diploma of Electrical Engineering at Sydney Technical College. 

With 5,000 Pounds, and the same amount of borrowed capital, in 1947 Bill started Tyree Holdings with his newly-wed, Joyce Lyndon. They were married at St. Phillips church, York Street, Sydney on January 03, 1947. The couple had three children: Christopher William (1947-2016); Peter Lyndon (1949-,) and Robyn Joy Tyree (1952-,). Between 1971 and 1992, eleven grandchildren were born. Bill set up a small business in rented premises at Campertown, where he manufactured his own design, the 'Tyree elecric motor', then his first 50Kva 11KV 415 transformer units, an order for the Sydney Water Board. In 1952, Bill had a new factory in Kingsgrove, a suburb of Sydney. 

By the early 1960s, he was the biggest manufacturer of electrical power transformers in the Southern Hemisphere, and he sold the business to Westinghouse in 1969. Bill Tyree remained a Director for another 10 years, then he went back to manufacturing; founding the Tyree Group of Companies.  In 1978 Tycan established a new factory for enamelled copper wire at Mittagong, Southern Highlands, NSW, which is 100 km by rail from Sydney. In 1983, Tyree Industries Pty, Ltd. built an adjacent new factory, to re-commence power transformer manufacturing. Bill was a very successful entrepreneur, and became one of Australias' leading philanthropists. He was awarded the O.B.E. in 1971, and was created Knight Batchelor in 1975. 

In 1967, Bill bought his Darling Point, Sydney property for AUD 170,000. The mansion has 1,700 square metres of interior, and 600 metres of water frontage. He bought 3,000 acres at Wellington, NSW, and ran 1,000 head of prize-winning cattle. In 1971, he established the A.W. Tyree Foundation with Engineering Scholarships worth $15,000 p.a. to advance engineering and education. He formed a close association with the University of New South Wales, and sponsored their Tyree Energy Technologies Building, and the 'Sir William Tyree Laboratory in Power Engineering' at the University of Sydney, which opened in 2008. The University of Sydney nominated him for the 2007 Outstanding Philanthropic Support of Higher Education Award, given out by the Business Higher Education Round Table, which he won. Bill was a pioneer in breast cancer screening, and he combined his engineering expertise with medicine to support breakthrough research into cochlear implants to treat deafness, and the development of the bionic ear. 

Sir William provided over AUD 500,000 to the University of NSW Faculty of Engineering, toward the establishment of Australia's only Graduate program in nuclear engineering, co-funded with ANSTO. Bill was awarded many honorary degrees, and the Australian 'Centenary Medal', and he died in Sydney on October 25, 2013, of melanoma, aged ninety-one years. His net worth was AUD 975 million. Joyce had died in 2006, after sixty years of marriage. Their waterfront home at 3 Lindsay Avenue, Darling Point was sold for over AU 30 million. Harold Abrahams wrote a biographical book: Tyree - The Will to Achieve. Sir William Tyree was buried at French's Forest Cemetery, Warringah Council, NSW. Tyree Industries took on another six apprentices for 2020. Refer www.tyree.com.au for the transformer company details.

WILLIAM TYREE, II, and TYREE STUDIO, established in Nelson in November 1880.

William Tyree II, was born on April 19, 1855, in Surrey, England. He was aged 16 1/2 years when he arrived at Dunedin, and he learned the photographic trade from his Uncle James Tyree III, sometime between 1871 and 1874. At age 19 1/2 years, he advertised the opening of his first Studio at Roxburgh, on November 04, 1874. The Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 67, Page 5 of October 21, 1875, read: 'We have been shown a photograph of St. Marks' Church here taken by Mr Tyree, Photographer ... It is seldom they have an opportunity of obtaining so correct a view, and Mr Tyree's successful effort ought to be appreciated and largely taken advantage of'. Aged twenty-three years, William Tyree, II, started Tyree Studio in central Trafalgar Street, Nelson, in November 1880. The site is now the Hallenstein clothing store. The business model was based on selling copies of the glass plate negatives, which were carefully catalogued. Prints were sold for as much as five Pounds each, and could be enlarged, or coloured in oil paints or watercolours, as requested. William married the widow Mary Ann Cross-Evans (1848-1945) on March 18, 1882, at the Wesleyan Church, in Nelson City. 

Captain Henry "Charles" Evans (1848-81) held a Master, Competency of Service Certificate, No. 2138. He was lost overboard from the Wakatu at night, about four miles southwest of D'Urville Island, Marlborough Sounds, in a possible suicide. He left a confidential note in his hat. This 'Will' was proved at the Nelson Court on September 16, 1881. 

Captain Evans owned an 8/64 share in the Wakatu. Upon their marriage six months later, William Tyree adopted Mary's six year old son James "Arthur" Vivian Evans-Tyree (Nelson; 1876 - February 15, 1927, at Shanghai). Six years later, in 1888 William had an affair with his sister-in-law Helen "Ellen" Smith Cross (1860-1926), and their son Craven Tyree (1889-95) was born. 

In 1884, William Tyree purchased the former photographic studio of Frank Nairn, and on September 17, 1884, he advertised his plan to enlarge the premises in mid-Trafalgar Street, Nelson. The building then had a street frontage of forty feet, and ran back to a depth of 100 feet. The Cyclopedia of New Zealand read: 'The business is known throughout the whole colony. The Studio is fitted up in the most superb manner, and the waiting and dressing rooms are unequalled by those of any other similar establishment in the Nelson, Westland, or Marlborough districts. Mr Tyree's work is said to be unsurpassed in the colony, and the specimens to be seen at the Studio are finished in a most artistic style. Six professional assistants are constantly employed'. Unquote. Miss Edith Young, and Edwin Pollard were two employees, with Pollard serving for thirteen years.

William Tyree, II, also owned fifty-nine acres of land in Hope, just south of Richmond, where he grew strawberries and melons while he resided for five years 1882-87 at Paton's Road, Hope. In 1884, he was trading as Hope Fruit and Produce Co., with a retail store three doors north of Tyree Studio, in Trafalgar Street, Nelson. The sign writing read, 'Fruiterers and Confectioners'. On November 15 he advertised, 'wanting 100 tons of pie melons, and able to supply wholesale strawberries'. William was made a Justice of the Peace. In Nelson, William specialised in Studio portraits with his 'Century' camera, image processing, and keeping a photographic record of civic occasions in the growing City of Nelson. 

In 1886, William employed 21-year-old Miss Rosaline Frank as Assistant, and from 1895 she was granted Power of Attorney for the business. William's Nelson home from 1887 was on the Port Nelson hillside, at 7 Richardson Street; the corner property is noted for its decorative wooden fretwork. William sold that property in 1906. With the Nelson City 50th Jubilee celebrations in 1892, William had begun lime-light slide exhibitions. He used a 'magic lantern' to project scenic images on the first-floor windows of his premises in mid-Trafalgar Street. It was a regular Saturday entertainment, when shops would stay open until 10 p.m. Large crowds gathered to watch, while a brass band played from an adjacent balcony. 

In December 1894, The Golden Bay Argus advised that, 'Tyree were to set up a permanent Studio in Golden Bay". In 1895, a major new frontage was built onto Tyree Studio. In late July 1895, William made a trip to London, to obtain information on the Acetylene gas generating process using calcium carbide, which was his pet project. He made a proposal to light the streets of Nelson, which was rejected by the City fathers, citing safety concerns. They made him store the carbide on the outskirts of the City. Returning from London, William brought with him an Edison 'New Wonder' phonograph, and moving images of Queen Victoria's 1897 Diamond Jubilee. 

William installed an acetylene-powered lighting system in the Christchurch home of his brother Alfred, and established the NZ Acetylene Gas Company to produce his patented 'Perfection' gas generators, and sell the carbide needed to power them. Acetylene produced a bright white light, about four times better than that obtained from reticulated coal gas. Adverising on the Tyree Studio exterior stated: "20 candlepower for 1/2 pence per hour. 140 candlepower for 2 pence per hour".

In 1894, the Nelson firm of H.D. Jackson published views of Nelson taken by the Tyree brothers. In 1895, the Tyrees prepared large framed photograph promotional boards, with scenes of the district. By October 1895, William and Mary Tyree had moved to Sydney, Australia (following the death of his son Craven). They took a large collection of slides, to advertise the attractions of Nelson Province. In 1896, he pursued photography and inventive interests. William returned to Nelson in 1897, and was involved with further gadgets and inventions. In 1905, Edwin Pollard died, after working for thirteen years as a photographer in Tyree Studio. After moving permanently to Sydney about 1910, William and Mary founded 'Tyree & Tyree, Engineers and Ironworkers' in Pitt Street, Sydney. For a time William took on the photographic business of J. Hubert Newman, in Lower George Street, Sydney, but that business did not prosper. In 1912, William sold the Tyree Studio Nelson building to Hallenstein Bros. Ltd., for 6,000 Pounds, with the Studio premises rented back for 100 Pounds p.a.. The beginning of WWI saw greatly reduced demand, and the demise of the Sydney photographic business. 

William's main focus was on the marketing of his inventions, but he found that difficult in a competitive commercial environment. In November 1914, William sold his Tyree Studio Nelson business to Rosaline Frank for the discounted price of 750 Pounds, in acknowledgement of her excellent service. His letter, dated November 25, 1914, reads: 'Dear Miss Frank. In reply to yours of 12th heretofore, I enclose receipt for 750 Pounds. Not being able to sell anything in Sydney, I have sold the business for considerably less than I was offered for it, but I recognise that you have done your best for me all the years we have been together, and therefore it was only right that I should sell it to you at a lower price. I hope you will do well. I may yet be able to sell this business on the ----[illegible], if I do I would be quite prepared to buy it back, and finish my days in Nelson. I agree you keep the [Tyree Studio] name up, and carry on as usual. (signed) William Tyree'. 

Rose Frank had been Manager, with Power of Attorney since 1895. In the local history Museums of the West Coast, Tyree Studio photographs are conspicuous. Cabinet portraits give the information that Tyree Brothers had portrait rooms in Nelson, Wanganui, Reefton, Westport, and at Hokitika.

William Tyree, II, built the first residential flats in Sydney, then exchanged them for a two storey home with a five acre mixed orchard in Pennant Hills. He was not commercially successful there, and could not keep up the mortgage payments. In later life, he was financially supported by Captain Arthur Vivian "Jack" Tyree, his adoptive son. He is remembered as a kind man, clever and secretive, an interesting conversationalist, and a fond grandfather. 

Mrs. Mary Frame, nee Tyree, visited Sydney in December 1966. She obtained this information from Mrs. Ethel Tyree: 'William Tyree was a quiet man, medium size, brown eyes, dark hair; a kind, thoughtful, sympathetic, intelligent man who read a great deal, and was very moderate over liquor. His best Sydney friend was Mr. McLeod, owner of the Bulletin Weekly journal, who also lived in Musgrave Street, Mosman. William was a man of no strong views. For some years previous to 1914 he had two German wool buyers renting his flats. On the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, he said to them that, "he supposed they were now his enemies". William exchanged his Musgrave Street, Mossman flats for a five acre property at Pennant Hills, N.S.W., and this property had been planted with orange trees. He died of cerebral meningitis, in North Shore Hospital, Sydney, on June 01, 1924'. William Tyree was buried at MacQuarie Park Cemetery, in New South Wales. 

William Tyree, II, had twenty-five inventions named on his letterhead including: Tyree 'Perfection' Acetylene generator, Tyree Lime Slakers, Tyree Air-Gas Machines (for lighting country houses), Tyree Town Lighting Plants, Tyree Insect Death, Tyree Disinfector, Tyree Weed Killer, Tyree Lantanicide, Tyree Insecticide, Tyree Klearal, Tyree Tickicide, Tyree Aphis Wash, Tyree Beetle Death, Tyree Snail-death, Tyree Prickly Pear Powder, Tyree Refrigerator Paint Powder, Tyree Petrite Cement Powder, Tyree Waterproof Whitewash, Tyree Blackberry Destroyer, Tyree waterproof soluble tar (for waterproofing walls, tanks, painting ironwork, wood, brick, stone, making paths, roads, etc), Tyree fireproof powder, and an improved acetylene sprayer (used to paint the roof of Sydney's Central Railway Station). He had Letters Patent for an improved egg tester, an improved mouse trap, an improved deck chair (which doubled as a lifesaver), an agitator apparatus for washing clothes, and an apparatus for teaching writing. 

John Victor Tyree wrote in a letter dated January 16, 1967, of his uncle William Tyree, II: 'He was very fond of children. He would make cute toys for my amusement. He was an interesting, intelligent conversationalist, with a fine sense of humour. He was active, contemplative, amusing, and of a kindly disposition. I never saw or heard of his ever being in anger. He was a lover of books and all reading. He appeared to have little interest in politics. For several years he had two German tenants, whose company he greatly enjoyed. I could never imagine my uncle holding any racial animosities towards aliens. His whole nature was kindly and helpful'. Unquote. 

NZ historian Les Cleveland wrote, The Tyrees were a family of middle class business people, typical of small tradesmen and artisans who were so active and influential in the settlement of New Zealand in the 1870's. In a word, they were go-getters'. 

Helen "Ellen" Smith Cross, the mother of Craven Tyree, was born on February 04, 1860, at Walmer House, the Cross family home at 7 Richardson Street, Nelson. In a double wedding with her sister Elizabeth Ann, who married James Henry Boundry, Helen married Arthur Nicholas Batchelor on August 17, 1880. The Cross women were, 'always the best dressed in Nelson'. Helen had five children, and later died of cancer on January 10, 1926. She is buried with her father, Captain James Smith Cross at Wakapuaka Cemetery in Nelson.

Arthur "Jack" Tyree was born in Nelson, the son of Charles Evans and Mary Cross. From the The Nelson Evening Mail of August 01, 1980, Page 2 read: 'Mr Arthur Tyree, a well known Nelsonian who has qualified as a Navigator and held various responsible positions, has been appointed to the command of the steamer Burrumbeet, 2,500 tons, one of the crack vessels in the Australian passenger trade between North Queensland and Melbourne'.

The Press,  March 10 1927, Page 10: 'DEATH Private advice received recently in Sydney records the death in Shanghai in February, of Captain James Arthur Tyree, who was well known in shipping and other circles in Australia and New Zealand. Captain Tyree was born in Nelson fifty years ago, and was a grandson of Captain James Cross, for many years Pilot at Nelson'.

The Evening Post March 19, 1927, Page 28 read: OBITUARY. Death of Captain Tyree.The death is reported of Captain James Arthur Tyree, a Nelsonian, who later became well known in Sydney, at Shanghai on 15th February, at the age of fifty years. For many years Captain Tyree was in the service of the Adelaide Steamship Company, and commanded the steamers Junee and Allinga, and some years ago he took latter vessel to China, the ship having been sold to Eastern interests. After delivering the Allinga to her new owners, he decided to remain in the East, and at the time of his death was associated with the China Merchants' Company. 

Captain Tyree is survived by Mrs Tyree and one son and two daughters, who reside in North Sydney. The late Captain Tyree was the grandson of James Cross, Nelson's first harbourmaster. When he left school he was apprenticed to the printing trade, and began to serve his time at The Mail office. He apparently found this unsuitable to his tastes, however, and in November 1894 he went to sea before the mast in the barque Halcione. Captain Tyree's last visit to Nelson was paid in 1897, when he obtained leave from the clipper Aristides, then in Sydney. After completing his apprenticeship in the Aristides, Captain Tyree entered the service of the Adelaide Shipping Company as Third Officer, and rapidly rose to Master'. 

Annaliese Sinclair is a grand-daughter of Capt. Jack Tyree, and the daughter of Jack Tyree (1917-2017). She lives in Airlie Beach, Proserpine, Queensland, Australia. 

FRED TYREE, LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHER ...

The author's great-grandfather was Fred Tyree, photographer and farmer of Rockville, Collingwood. Fred was born on March 07, 1867, in Marylebone, London (Middlesex), England, and arrived in Dunedin, NZ, aged four years six months. As a teenager, Fred learned the drug (Pharmacist) trade at Sainsbury, Ellison & Co. in Dunedin, and then gained significant photographic experience at the Clifford, Morris & Co. Studio. Robert Clifford was born about 1843 in England. He arrived in NZ before December 1869, and had the Otago Portrait Gallery open in Fleet Street, Dunedin by August 1872. (His partnership with Morris was established by August 1873, but was dissolved on July 18 1877). Clifford died in 1906. 

Fred studied chemistry and anatomy, under Professor Black, at Otago University. The author's father, Vernon 'Vern' R. Tyree (1931-2015), had his grandfather Fred's large illustrated book of Human Anatomy. Fred was also handy at dentistry, and later pulled teeth for men in work camps around the Nelson west area, offering a swig of whiskey as a sedative. His three dental pliers were passed down to his grandson, Vern Tyree. 

Aged 17 years and six months, Fred Tyree moved to Nelson, and from late 1884 worked five years in Tyree Studio as Assistant to his older brother, William Tyree, II. From 1886-89, Fred travelled widely in Nelson Province, photographing scenic landscapes and industrial developments. Aged 22, Fred began photographic work in 1889, with a small Studio at Section 20, Commercial Street, Takaka. Aged 25, Fred married Grace Beveridge Scott (1872-1941) on April 14, 1892, at Nelson City Presbyterian Church. Their Marriage Licence was No. 1892/1297. 

Dry-plate negatives were developed by the Kodak company in 1881. Gelatine-bromide, a new emulsion combining silver bromide with gelatin, was coated onto glass plates, and could be used in the camera in a dry state. This enabled photographers to work away from their Studio, and exposed plates were then brought back to a dark-room for processing. In 1882 George Eastman had patented the emulsion-ready photographic process, and this system was first used in Dunedin in 1882. 

Fred's first son, Frederick William Tyree was born in Takaka on February 07, 1893. Due to a downturn in the photographic business, and with his wife and newborn first child, by early 1893 Fred was living at Ferry Road, Christchurch, working for his brother Alfred Tyree, (who had Alfred Tyree & Co., a thriving boot and shoe-making business). Fred returned to Takaka late in 1896 for two years of photographic work, and erected a new Studio measuring 40 feet by 20 feet. The Tyree building had the name in large block letters on the facade, and after Fred moved to Collingwood, the Tyree Hall was a popular venue for wedding parties and entertainments. In 1928 it was moved by horse-drawn dray to the Waikorokoropupu Valley, and located by Campbell's house where it served as a laundry, sleepout and farm shed. It was taken down around 1995. 

Proprietors Newman Bros. & Canning engaged Tyree Studio to take photos of the horse-drawn 'Buller Gorge Coach Service' at ten inch by eight inch size, which were used in national tourist promotions. In June 1895, the Tyrees endeavoured to induce tourists to Take the finest Coach Drive in New Zealand - 600 miles of road and river scenery between Christchurch and Picton, via the West Coast and Nelson. The government Publicity Department distributed Fred Tyree's landscape pictures around the world, with the Orion and New Zealand Steamship Companies. In the period 1899-1904 he held the Licence at Collingwood Hotel, and leased the building from George Willis Riley. His daughter, Grace was born at the Hotel in 1901. 

Fred had a small purpose-built Studio in Collingwood, where he used a 'Sanderson' camera, on part of Section 10, where the old Masonic Hall once stood on the corner of Beach Road and Elizabeth Street. From 1905-13, Fred was a Collingwood County Councillor. The Council was established in 1876, and met on the third Monday in each month. The Rockville Dairy factory was built in 1910, and Fred was a Director, and also served as Acting Secretary. The former factory building is now the 'Rockville Machinery and Settler's Museum. When the dairy company was up and running, Fred resigned his seat to William Scrimegour, who had represented the Ferntown Milk Suppliers as an ex-officio Board Member through the set-up period.

In 1912, Fred Tyree offered a collection of landscape photos to the Takaka Council at the rate of two Pounds sixpence each. One of the rare photographs of Fred shows him standing on the hillside, with Collingwood township in the background. Fred specialised in landscape work, and took over 9,000 technically brillant outstanding images of the goldfields, timber milling, coalmining, flax-milling, farming ventures, all modes of transport, and scenic vistas, using his tripod mounted 'Thornton-Packard Ruby' camera. That camera could take either 15 by 12 inch full-plate, half-plate, or quarter-plate size images. It was manufactured by 'Perken, Son and Rayment' of London, and came with a heavy leather carrying case.

Fred Tyree was commissioned by the government of the day to photograph various industries including; shipping, wharves, iron and steelworks, bridge construction, and tourism, to record the evidence of the Shareholder's investments. His negative plates were processed in Tyree Studio, Nelson, which is how Fred and William's work output was merged. Fred bought a 54-acre farm at Pah Road, Rockville, in 1905, and built a house. He used recycled timber from another house, and milled some white pine. With his buggy and tandem horses named Photo and Lana, Fred travelled the Nelson, Marlborough and West Coast areas. These journeys frequently took up to fourteen days. 

He had a darkroom and photographic workroom in an outbuilding he constructed at his Rockville home. His wife, Grace, assisted by their daughter, Grace, ran a bakehouse, supplying bread from the farm. Fred was a personal friend of Richard J. "King Dick" Seddon, who was a member of the Liberal Party, and was NZ Premier from 1893 until his death in 1906. I heard a story of Fred being asked why he did not arrive to photograph a 12-foot long swordfish beached near Collingwood in 1904. He replied, 'I took note of the day that message arrived ... April first'. Fred was known for his quick sense of humour, and he was meticulous in setting up a photo scene. He sometimes took props with him to industrial sites. After photo sessions, he became camp dentist, using a set of pliers for dental extractions, and a glass of whiskey as sedative. 

In 1913, Fred again returned to lease the Collingwood Hotel from June 06, for one year, and his then twelve-year-old daughter Grace served as a maid. When WWI broke out in 1914, Fred Tyree II (who had been assisting his father on the farm in Pah Road) enlisted early, for military service overseas. He was one of the first three men from Collingwood to leave for military training camp. Fred Snr again held the Hotel Licence in 1915-16; then worked another eight years in photography from his farm address at Rockville. His telephone number on the Collingwood exchange was 3W, on a party-line. 

In 1919, Fred Tyree took up a Crown Lease of 2,480 acres on the historic Aorere goldfields area, and with the help of his sons Frederick and Edward, he farmed sheep there. Frederick William Tyree and Edward Alfred Tyree sheared the sheep using blade shears. The Crown lease cost 500 Pounds, and covered an area from Lash's farm at Te Anaroa Caves, to Appo's Flat, east to Parapara River, and to the Golden Gully, Wakefield, and Slate River boundaries; which included the goldfields, taking in Druggan's Dam, and the Canterbury Hill caves.

Fred Tyree and his wife Grace fostered young Ethel Edwards for many years, and she married Alex D. Page of Takaka. Their son, Hugh Page, married Jessie Scott, also of Takaka. Fred Tyree, I, died of pneumonia on April 08, 1924, aged fifty-seven years, and was buried at Collingwood New Cemetery. His widow, Grace, remarried, becoming Mrs. Hugh Ferguson, living south of Farewell Spit on a windswept farm at Westhaven. In her latter years, after Hugh Ferguson died in 1938 she lived with her daughter, Mrs. Grace Spittal in Nelson, and she died, aged 69, on February 17, 1941. Refer to www.teara.govt.nz for the Encyclopedia of New Zealand biographies of the Tyree photographers.

Graeme's paternal grandparents were Ted and Lillian Tyree. Edward 'Ted' Alfred Tyree was born on July 04, 1897, and died in Nelson Hospital after a series of strokes, on July 07, 1973, aged seventy-six years. When aged twenty years, Ted was called up for military service in 1917 for WWI; his Trooper number being 71253, Collingwood Mounted Rifles; part of the First NZ Expeditionary Force. His Regiment travelled as far as Egypt, arriving at Cairo in February 1917, but they did not see active service. Ted served with The War Graves Commission, identifying and burying fallen soldiers, then returned to farming at Rockville, Golden Bay. He later spoke of the endless Egyptian sand, the pyramids, the Arabs, and their camels. 

Ted took over the family farm, after his father, Fred, died on April 08, 1924. Ted Tyree and Lillian Edith Barnes (1905-90) were married at the Motueka Registry Office in April 1926, and had six children: Leslie Edward (October 12, 1926 - December 03, 2010); Trevor Alfred (May 03, 1928 - December 13, 1993); Delcie Grace (June 11, 1929 - November 01, 2009); Vernon "Vern" Raymond (November 17, 1931 - July 25, 2015); Murray (January 31, 1933, accidentally drowned February 12, 1956); and Margaret, born March 18, 1941. 

With his pack-horse named Cheeky, Ted delivered meat to miners on the Aorere goldfield. When the June 17, 1929, Murchison earthquake struck, Ted was working on the farm, away from the house. He spoke of the ground rolling, like waves, so strong that he could not run, and the macrocarpa trees were swaying so much that their tops almost touched the ground. Many house chimneys came down, and there was a great risk of fire. From his farm, Ted provided a fresh meat delivery service, from Puponga to Bainham, using a converted Chevrolet truck, with a cool-box on the back, sign-written E A Tyree, Butcher. The price of fresh meat in the 1920s and '30s was three pence per pound, and Ted provided a service direct to people's homes. His sausages were well regarded, and any meat that could not be sold immediately was made into corned beef. 

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the New Zealand government encouraged married men to re-work the old goldfields. They were paid a subsistence allowance of ten shillings per week, and could keep 90% of any gold they found. Some managed to send money home to their families. The subsidy scheme was trialled in three districts, including Collingwood. By the end of 1932 there were 1,500 NZ men on the subsidy, increasing to 3,700 in 1933. When Ted Tyree raised the meat price to 3 1/4 pence per pound, miners slaughtered many of his flock of 600 sheep, as evidenced by scores of spent rifle pellets which were found under the skins of surviving animals that Ted later butchered. 

Ted hired some unemployed tradespeople to build a slaughter-house on his farm at Pah Road, with pumice lining the roof, to keep out the heat. He processed cattle, pigs, and sheep there. As a youngster, I recalled seeing its colourful rusty iron roof. In 1944, Ted purchased the grassy river terraces at Diamond Flat, by the Aorere River. The Hickmott family owned land on the opposite river bank. After 1958, the meat cool-box was stored in the new hayshed his son, Vern, had built about 1965 on the sheep-run farm. In December 1950, a concrete water tank on a pedestal base was built for the house water supply at Pah Road, Rockville, Golden Bay, Aotearoa-New Zealand.

Kind regards, the author: Graeme K. Tyree, of Nelson 7011, Aotearoa-New Zealand.