Macdonald Dictionary Record: Louis Walter Hood

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George Ranald Macdonald
Production date
1952-1964
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One record, handwritten in ink on rectangular card, with biographical information for Louis Walter Hood. Written by George Ranald Macdonald for the Macdonald Dictionary of Canterbury Biography project, 1952-1964.
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Christchurch
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G R Macdonald Dictionary of Canterbury Biographies
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H730
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H730
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H730
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Marks/Inscriptions: born at h ore. Eng. H. 730 "Hood, Louis Walter (1838- 1912) was a sailor. In 1860 he went to a labour exchange in Ch. Ch to get a roh, Chas. Harper was looking for a man to take to Lake Coleridge. and saw a little man jumping up and down at the back of the room to attract attention . Harper found that he was a sailor and he knew sailors were handy men and he engaged him. He was started off for the Lake with a bullock dray. That ought as a strong Nor .Wester was blowing , he turned his dray round and slept under a sheet. ent in oringi he sit off for the hills in front of him , forgetting that he had turned his dray round He found later in that he had been making for the hills of Banks Pen. He stayed at Lake Coleridge for 5 years and saved every penny. Then he went to sea again as a purser and started to trade on his own accoun t. between Auck. and the Chat hams. He first had the Express which was wrecked off Wb hangaroa in ; then the Rifleman which the Han Han prisoners at the Chat hame seized and gob away in; then the Agnes which was wrecked at Te Raki and sold to T.Ritchie. He next bought the omaha, a much larger vessel , but it fell to pieces in '87 . Then the Islanders banded to gether to run the Kahu in E.E. Richards, Chatham) 3 : A.J. Blakiston : St. Saviours Sed. M.R.; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
Marks/Inscriptions: L.W. Hood H. 730 opposition to him .In spite of all these misfortunes he had made money and he leased Owenga Station from Hare te Ran (Jane Brown) and spent a lot of money on it. He farmed it on a very im economic way and was ruined in the end. The mortgages , A.E.G. Rhodes and R.M. macdonald put a hard headed old Scotch man called Renwick to manage for them and by dint of spending practically nothing on the place he did very well for them. Archie Shand managed Owenga for years for him . Hood was made a J.P. for the Chatham at Chad highs request when Chudleigh was preparing to leave the Chatham in 1907. The Meikle at Te one card for Hood for the rest of his life after he had lost his money. When the Han Hans organised their breakaway the trussed up Hood and left him to drown in the rising tide , but he was released in good time. In 84 he advanced money to most of the Maori Shep farmed ag amr st their Wool clip. The Lylt. Tines reporter visiting the Cha hams in 92 found that Hood had finished his farm buildings and was soon to build a sese. marr. Emma Shand lam. of A.W.Shand , R.M. at the Chatham Is. He wes interested in introducing buds and animals. He set free deer, swans , Skylark s, starlings and weka . There aro no deer on the; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
Marks/Inscriptions: H. 730 Chat hams but the weka s have survived. He and Ritchie wanted to import , the. hares for coursing but Chudleigh stopped. The swans increased en orman sly sporting the lake for ducks which of course they easily do with their longe nees. It had been wonderful bit of water for ducks before. Rhodes died in 1922 and Macdonald in 1928 . In about 19 30 the Macdonald tousled sold their haf of He Owenga to the Rhodes Busters and Owenga came into the hands of Mis Geo Hutton only serving child of Arthur Rhodes. She later sold it. Reni ich returned to live in N.Z. in 1929 and died soon after. Hood. d at home of T.W. Meikle, Te One 11.2.12.ag 74. Curry of Mt Torlesse in his Journal mentions Hood turning up for stragglers N.0v. 62 from hake Col. , Hood Hood was a son of John Shand merch. and Eliz Richards married 13.1.87 dt St Saviou Syd y Rev. H. B. Cocked Agne Emily Shand 27 b. Chatham ) dau Archibald Watson Shand.; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer

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