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John "Johnny" Jones (ca. 1808-1869) was a pioneer settler in
New Zealand.
Born in
New South Wales,
Australia, he spent his early life on sealing and whaling ships, before becoming a ferryman at
Port Jackson.
He had a wife called sarah seizemore He had 11 kids unfortunately 2 died as infants.
In 1835 Jones and Edwin Palmer went into a partnership to purchase a whaling station in New Zealand and a schooner for whaling. Within the next few years, his shrewd business skills allowed him to gain a controlling interest in seven New Zealand whaling stations.
In 1838 he bought a whaling station and land near
Waikouaiti, and also purchased from
Ngai Tahu chief
"Bloody Jack" Tuhawaiki a large area of land, amounting to a considerable part of what is now
North and
Central Otago. Much of this purchase was later annulled when South island lands were ceded to
The Crown. After long wrangling, Jones was eventually allowed to keep some 11,000 acres (45 km²).
In 1840, Jones' Waikouaiti station became the organised settlement in the eastern South Island. About 10 families from
Sydney were settled close to the station as a farming community, to provide food for the station and to grow crops and to raise sheep and cattle.
Financial constraints (due in part to a recession in 1840s Sydney) led Jones to permanently move with his family to New Zealand in 1843, dividing his time between Waikouaiti and Wellington. The decline of whaling forced him to close the Waikouaiti station in the late 1840s, and he concentrated on developing his farm which soon became an important food source for the new settlement of
Dunedin, where he moved to in 1854. During the early days of settlement in Dunedin, Jones' shipping and trading interests set him up as the chief rival to
James Macandrew.
During the 1860s, Jones' interests again turned to shipping, firstly as a shareholder of the short-lived Otago Steam Ship Company, and then through his own venture, the Harbour Steam Navigation Company, which served the ports of Dunedin,
Port Chalmers, and
Oamaru, and later also traded with
Hokitika on the
West Coast.
Jones had little interest in politics, and refused a position offered by
Edward Stafford on the
New Zealand Legislative Council. He did, however, serve as chairman of the Dunedin Town Board in 1856. Jones died in Dunedin on
16 March 1869.
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