OUT OF THE PAST

Hokitika Guardian, 11 December 1930, Page 2

OUT OF THE PAST

“A Passing Note’’ of November 22 in the Otago Times, passed' bn ah " inquiry as to the lost city of Jamestown, ..last found ion an old map /at the entrance to Milford Sound. A Hokitika correspondent kindly supplies the required information:— . Dear “Oivis,”—This; place -is . siV uated on the N.E, side of Lake AlcKerrow, and distant. from the sea about 5i miles—access' by the Hollyford River on the coast side and by horse Jrack via Greenstone Saddle from Lake Wakatipu.,‘The township of Jamestown was named after the late Hon. James Macandrew, who was Superintendent of Otago, at the 'time. A small. Settlement Arts formed and areas were purveyed and laid off by Alessrs John Strauchon and E. H. Wiimot—both of whom wer© surveyors-gen'efal later, and 'are now living iii Wellington. 'The settlement was a failure. . I think there are only two settlers living now in the vicinity. Your correspondent was wrong in stating

that the place is at the mouth of

Milford Sound. A town named after James Macandrew deserved a better fate. But other places are still surviving and flourishing to perpetuate his prestige. There were many of his contemporaries who would have followed him to the death and beyond. "Who has not heard of the man who, rolling home towards Wakari after closing hours on a dark night, fell into r newly dug grave in the old Arthur Street Cemetery? His slumbers were disturbed in the early dawn by thb horn blown bv the postman on his wav to North Taieri. * The last tnunpl” he cried, . “L’U gang vvi’ James Alacandrew.” CIVIS.