Trout fishing party at Smith’s Whare in the Waterworks Valley, Wainuiomata. Halse, Frederick James, 1863-1936 : Collection of negatives. Ref: 1/2-004086-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22822206
A trout fishing party at Smith’s Whare taken in March 1888. Also known as Stocks Whare, it is located overlooking the Wainuiomata River near the intersection of what is now Moores Valley Road and Whitcher Grove in the 1880s / 1890s.
Arthur Henry Stock (1854 – 1930) worked in a bank.
Ernest Loughman Burnes (1864-1930) born and died Victoria, Australia.
James Eman Smith (1862 – 1916) worked for the Treasury Department and later became Resident Commissioner of the Cook Islands and Commissioner of Pensions.
John Matthew King (1863-1930) was a Commissioner of Taxes and a 1880s Rugby player.
Robert John Steward Todd (1861-1894) was an Accountant at the Government Insurance Department.
Special thanks to Jeremy Foster for information on the people in this photo.
