1. Star, 29/11/82.

2. The account that follows is drawn from the Star, 2/3/83.

3. Star, 13/4/81, 16/4/81, 21/9/81.

4. Star, 2/9/85.

5. Star, 15/10/86.

6. Waldegrave, op. cit., p. 12.

7. The account that follows is a collation of information from reports in Egmont Star, 13/10/88, p. 7, 20/10/88, p. 7; TH, 5, 18, & 19/10/88.

8. Rollo Arnold, New Zealand's Burning, pp. 67, 242.

9. CNZ, VI, p. 224; Charles Edwin Major, ‘Seventy years of life in New Zealand’, MS 188, Auckland Institute and Museum.

10. TH, 21/3/90.