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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Captain Ernest Charles Wilmot Porter
Captain Ernest Charles Wilmot Porter , who has been in charge of the Queenstown Rifle Volunteers since the establishment of the corps, was born in 1856, at Wanganui. He is the eldest son of the late Mr David Porter, of Wellington, who was a passenger in the ship “Cressy,” to Lyttelton, one of the first four ships that brought the Canterbury Pilgrims to New Zealand in December, 1850.