Joseph Dargaville

In early 1859 he relocated again, this time to Sydney, where he obtained a clerking job with the Union Bank of Australia at a salary of £100 per annum.

Seeing the potential of the kauri timber and gum, he leased land and set up a trading post.

[5] In the 1890 election he stood in the Bay of Islands electorate against three others (Robert Houston, James Trounsen, and John Lundon) and came last.

[8] Dargaville was on a return visit from England when he died aboard the Mariposa on 27 October 1896, and was buried at sea.

[1] He has a memorial at the St Stephens Cemetery in Parnell, Auckland, shared with his wife Anne, who died on 5 July 1915.