Bequests and gifts

This is a list of bequests and gifts that I am aware of. There are likely to be omissions for which I apologise. Not included are the many people that regularly donated plants, especially in the first 25 years of the park’s development. Also not included are many people who gave many hours of their time to help the park fundraising etc. One person who has to be singled out is T. K. Skinner who spent hundreds of hours as a professional surveyor laying out the park paths and the sportsground.

BEQUESTS

Martha King. £106 17s 5d – 1897

Isabella Small. £25 – 1905

Peter Madsen. £25 – 1906

Robert Govett. £100 – 1906

Mrs. Broham. £100 – 1907

Peter Matson. £25 – 1913

Five large cases of ducks – 1914

Mrs Hulke. £100 – 1917

C. W. Govett. £100 – 1917

Mr. A. Shuttleworth £20 – 1924

Newton King. £3000. This was changed in 1933 to become the gifting of Brooklands – 1927

Mr. J. Attrill. £100 – 1927

Mary Ellen Freeth £50 – 1928

Walter Haddrell. £50 – 1931

Mrs Alice Paul. £50 – 1931

Charles Score Sanders. £350 for rhododendron dell – 1933

Charles Score Sanders. Large cash bequest which paid for:

The replacement of The Poet’s Bridge in 1937, £877; Liardet St gates in 1938, approx. £1500; relocating the Brookland grape house to the Fernery to become the first Begonia House, £150; extending the Tea House in 1946, £750; Partial cost of new administration building in 1952, £792. In 1959 there was still £776 in the Sanders Bequest.

Newton King. Brooklands estate – 1933

P. J. Flannagan. £50/ year for 21 years – 1933

Miss Hempton. £50 – 1934

R. C. Hughes. £50 – 1935

Mary Bingham. £250 – 1941

T. C. List – Land in the Maranui Gully – 1941

A. R. Standish. £400 – 1947

Doctor E. F. Fookes. £50 – 1948

Leah Graham. £2100 and 7 gold cups which were subsequently sold – 1951

Sinclair. £200 – 1954

Frank Amoore. £100 – 1956

George Home. £100 – 1957

Mrs Eva Alice Wood. £1000 – 1971

GIFTS

Canterbury Domain 2000 shrubs -1876           

Mitchinson’s Nursery. Trees for planting on the opening day – 1876

Mr. Hirst, a commodious pleasure boat – 1878

Bathing Shed. Built by the swimming club from public donations – 1879

Mitchinson’s nursery. 1000 trees – 1881

Professor Furlong. Two alabaster nymphs, a fountain and a large glass ball reflector – 1882

R. C. Hughes. A pond – 1882

Doctor O’Carroll. A fountain – 1882

James Davis. The Poet’s Bridge – 1883

H. V. Barclay. Design of The Poet’s Bridge and supervision of its const’n – 1883

Thomas Furlong. A Dicky Barrett cannon – 1884

George Rhind. Ornamental Iron Gates for Liardet Street entrance – 1884

Chew Chong. Flagstaff from the wrecked Austalind – 1885

Mr. Sharland (UK). Six wrought iron garden benches – 1885

Mrs. Dougherty’s Egmont Ladies Academy: Circular seat round flagstaff – 1876

James Paul. £25 towards bandstand – 1885

Mr. White, Smart Road Brick Works. Two large earthenware vases for the main lake – 1886

W.L. Newman. Cannon – 1887

W. F. Hoskin, from Waitara. A cannon and ball. Ball from H. M. S. Pelorus – 1887

Reginald Bayly. Cannon – 1891

Clement Govett. £20 to buy trees – 1891

Archibald Hood. Planted a maze – 1892

Messrs Cave and Luckin, Bank Farm, Tataraimaka. Whale skeleton – 1893

Messrs Cummins & Son, carpenters. Garden seat – 1895

Sportsground committee. Queen Victoria Jubilee Fountain – 1897

W.L. Newman. Six iron garden chairs – 1899

Mrs. Copland. Two garden seats – 1900

Kauri Timber Co, Auckland. Two substantial kauri spars for flagstaff – 1901

Sash & Door Co. 500ft of 2-inch planking to make seats – 1901

E. M. Smith. Six white swans brought from England – 1902

Tea kiosk. Designed by J. A. Maisey and constructed by a local builder at no charge – 1905

W.F. Short. Marble tablet to memorialise deceased benefactors – 1906

Various people. Many seats for the redeveloped sportsground – 1907

Mr. E Whittle (Proprietor, Red House Hotel). Horse drawn roller and mower – 1908

Hon. O. Samuel. £50 – 1910

Hon. O. Samuel. £25 – 1912

Hon. O. Samuel. £25 – 1913

C. H. Burgess £25 – 1916

C. H. Burgess. Hot water fountain – 1917

Taranaki Jockey Club. £25 – 1917

C. H. Burgess. Mayoral honorarium of £150 donated to Park – 1918

C. H. Burgess. Mayoral honorarium of £150 donated to Park – 1919

Charles Score Sanders. Planted a rhododendron dell in what is now Stainton Dell – 19122

W. D. Graham. £300 towards lighting Sportsground – 1910

Mr and Mrs Burgess. Tea House. Cost approximately £1000 – 1931

Mr and Mrs Burgess. £150 for Tea House furnishings – 1931

Mr and Mrs Burgess. £60 for Tea House silverware – 1931

T. C. List – Land in the Maranui Gully – 1934

C. A. Wilkinson Land in the Maranui Gully – 1934

Bruce Trust. £250 – 1936

Mrs Burgess. Replaced Tea House crockery, tablecloths and curtains – 1941

Junior Chamber of Commerce. £475 – 1948

Internal Affairs Department. £500 towards cost of Ladies Pavilion – 1949

Junior Chamber of Commerce. £455 – 1950

National Flower Show. £200 – 1952

L. H. Johnston Motors Ltd. Automatic Stoking boiler to heat the Fernery – 1953

Junior Chamber of Commerce. Ten seats placed around Fountain Lake – 1955

Jaycees. Constructing children’s paddling pool – 1960

Drinking water fountain and Don Driver’s Cats sculpture – 1960

Fred Parker orchid collection – 1965

Jaycees. Florafauna, Stage 1 of Brooklands Zoo – 1965

Mr & Mrs George Kibby. Begonia House valued at $30,000 – 1967

P E Stainton $400 – 1967

Jaycees. Peafowl enclosure – 1967

Jaycees. Deer enclosure – 1969

Jaycees. Wallaby enclosure – 1970

Jaycees. Free flight cage – 1974