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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

Whiteman, Walter

Whiteman, Walter, Farmer, “Glengarr,” Mangamahu, Fordell. Born in 1838 at Dunoon, Argyllshire, Scotland, where he passed his carly years, Mr. Whiteman sailed in 1859 from Bristol in the ship “William Miles,” and landed at Lyttelton, the Canterbury Plains being covered with snow at the time. He went to Otago in company with Captain Baldwin, and purchased a sheeprun on the Molyneux. On the breaking-out of the Otago goldfields, he sold the run and went to Gabriel's Gully, and afterwards to Waitahuna, where he found the first gold, saving ten ounces from the first dish, but very little, afterwards. Mr. Whiteman subsequently took up land in Southland, but after a time sold out and went to Victoria for three years, becoming manager of a cattle-run of 200,000 acres. In 1867 he returned to New Zealand, settling in Hawkes Bay as an auctioneer and cattle-breeder. Mr. Whiteman put up the first sawmill at Te Aute. Removing subsequently to Wangunui, he re-visited his native land, going Home in the ship “St. Leonards.” Coming back to the Colony in 1887, he took up his present holding of 2600 acres. Mr. Whiteman was married in 1862 to Miss McClosky, of Riverton, and has had nine children, of whom four sons and two daughters survive.