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The story of a young man named John Kerle Tipaho Haberfield from the very south of New Zealand. In World War Two he enlisted in the Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve and after training as a pilot in England and Canada he joined the Fleet Air Arm. Late in 1943 he was posted to a fighter squadron and joined to the Far East completing further training in India and Ceylon. He was then posted to the aircraft carrier HMS Indomitable and was shot down during a bombing raid on two oil refineries on Palembang in Sumatra. He was captured and sent to Outram Road Prison where he and another eight aircrew were executed. His life from this period is recorded in letters sent home to his family during the war

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Publié par	Xlibris NZ
Date de parution	22 juin 2023
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669880431
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	4 Mo

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FROM GREENHILLS TO SINGAPORE

The story of one of the Palembang Nine

JAMES SUTHERLAND

Copyright © 2023 by James Sutherland.

Library of Congress Control Number:
2023904719
ISBN:
Hardcover
978-1-6698-8045-5
Softcover
978-1-6698-8044-8
eBook
978-1-6698-8043-1

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CONTENTS
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36

Appendix One
Appendix Two
Appendix Three
Appendix Four
Select Bibliography
Endnotes

CHAPTER 1
John Kerle Tipaho (always affectionately known by his family as Boy) Haberfield was named not only after his grandfather but also after his great-great-uncle.
John’s great-great-uncle and namesake Sir John Kerle Haberfield was born at Devonport on 23 October 1785, the son of Andrew and Mary Haberfield, and died in Bristol on 27 December 1857. He was baptised in the parish church at Stoke Damerel (which is now part of Plymouth City) on 27 November 1785. The family later moved to Bristol and by 1804 was living in Guinea Street. In 1802, the young John was articled as a clerk for five years to Thomas Jarman of Bristol, a solicitor in His Majesty’s High Court of Chancery. He qualified as a solicitor and married Sarah Dupont, the daughter of one of his wealthy clients. John rose to prominence becoming six times Mayor (Chief Magistrate) of Bristol in 1837, 1839, 1845, 1846, 1848, and 1851. He was also seven times Governor of the Poor. When he became Chief Magistrate, he declined the salary, much to the delight of the Bristol ratepayers. He was knighted in 1851 for his services as Mayor of that busy port city.

It is reported that Sir John was a convivial man who enjoyed presiding over banquets, dinners, and other festivities, all of which came his way as Mayor, and his ‘showy equipage with postilion, in the old style, was familiar with most inhabitants’. On one occasion, when he was sitting on the bench, a question arose about the water provided in the courtroom, and a sample was handed up for the opinion of the magistrates, but Sir John declined, saying he ‘had not tasted water for 30 years and did not feel qualified to pass his judgment upon it’.
Sir John is entombed in the vaults beneath the Anglican Chapel in the Arnos Vale Cemetery. His memorial is on the wall inside the chapel and reads:
In memory of
Sir John Kerle Haberfield Knight
Born 23 rd October 1785 Died 27 th December 1857
He served the office of Mayor of the City of Bristol six times
And was seven times Governor of the Corporation of the Poor
The generous hospitality and bountiful charity which distinguished his life will
Long be remembered in the city the interests of which he was always the first to promote
He was ever ready to assist those struggling with pecuniary difficulties and relieve the poor
He died universally beloved and lamented in an affectionate regard for his memory.
His friends have erected a monument in the Mayors Chapel in Bristol
To perpetuate his worth and their loss
His widow pays this last tribute of deep affection to her husband
In the place where his remains
Also in remembrance of Sarah widow of the above Who died at her residence 41 Royal York Crescent Clifton
‘Full of good works and alms deeds’ she died IX ACTS.36.

Sir John and his wife had no children, but his brother Isaac, who had become an officer in the Royal Navy, had several children. Isaac’s son, John’s great-grandfather William Isaac Haberfield, was born in Bristol on 3 June 1815, just ten days before the Battle of Waterloo took place. Being a Navy man, Isaac senior apprenticed his son as a boy seaman. After attending a school in Greenwich for the sons of naval officers, William joined a brigantine and travelled the Mediterranean, trading fruit from Spain and Portugal. He even took one journey across the Atlantic to Newfoundland and back.

Having learned the art of seamanship, he was posted as a midshipman to Her Majesty’s brig Snake . Some of his first journeys entailed hunting pirates and slavers off the coast of Brazil. He then joined another ship that brought male convicts from England to Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania). After landing in Australia, he heard tales from other sailors of opportunities in the whaling industry in New Zealand. Many of those sailors had arrived at Dusky Sound some twenty years before, only two decades after James Cook had landed there.
The first of these whaling stations was established at Preservation Inlet on the rugged south-western coast of Fiordland in 1829. Stations were started at Dusky Sound, and in the decade between 1830 and 1840, others were set up at river mouths at Aparima (Jacobs River), now Riverton, Oreti (New River) near Invercargill, Awarua (Bluff), Toitois (Mataura), Waikawa (Catlins), Matau (Molyneux near Balclutha), Taieri Mouth, Otakou, (Otago Heads), Purakanui, Waikouaiti, and Moeraki.
By the time Isaac Haberfield landed at Otago on 17 March 1836 aboard the Micmac , he had crammed a lifetime of experience into his twenty-one years. For the next six years, he worked as a whaler along the south-eastern coast of the South Island before settling in Port Moeraki in 1842. He had taken a Maori wife, Mereana Paahi (also known as Teitei), in a Maori ceremony. This was later formalised in an Anglican ceremony by the Reverend Creed at Moeraki on 27 September 1847. When Teitei died in 1852, he married Catherine Ariki Price at the Waikouaiti Methodist Mission House later that year.

Isaac’s relationship with Teitei produced five children—namely,
(a) Mere Pi Haberfield (known as Mary), born in Moeraki in 1837; died in Little River on 16 August 1893;
(b) Mereana Putere Haberfield (known as Annie), born in Moeraki on 27 February 1840; died on 23 April 1884;
(c) John Kerle Haberfield, born in Moeraki on 26 April 1845; died in Greenhills on 20 September 1902; and twins,
(d) Joseph William Haberfield, born in Moeraki on 23 January 1849, died on 1 May 1879; and Meriana Haberfield, born in Moeraki on 23 January 1849, died in October 1850, aged one.
Isaac was one of many well-known whalers such as Dickie Barrett, George Fyfe, Paddy Gilroy, Thomas Habbert, ‘Happy’ Jack Greening, John Hughes, Manuel Lima, Jacky Love, William Morris, James Spencer, Philip Tapsell, and Edward Weller, all of whom married Maori women.
By 1839, John Jones of Waikouaiti controlled most of the whaling stations between Riverton and Moeraki. Jones was a man of great practical ability and natural shrewdness and soon grew wealthy on whaling. He bought large areas of land from the Maori. A man of great force of character and devoted to his own way of thinking and aware of his virtues and failings, he was qualified to play a prominent part among the men who surrounded him. He lived on until 1869, and his muscular figure, dressed in a black coat and topped by a tall silk, hat was well known to the local settlers.
By 1842, Isaac had exchanged his life of whaling for sailing around New Zealand with other coastal traders. He joined the schooner Rory O’Moore sailing between Akaroa and Wellington. On one trip, the ship had the misfortune to run aground at Palliser Bay in fog and was wrecked. The crew saved the cargo and walked to Wellington in three days.
Isaac continued to ply his trade as a seafarer around the New Zealand coast. He bought a twenty-five-acre property in Moeraki and named it Clifton after the area he’d lived in his home city of Bristol. He died in Oamaru on 9 September 1906 at the grand old age of ninety-one following a life full of adventure. Ariki, his faithful second wife and companion of fifty-four years, died in Moeraki just four months later.
John Kerle Haberfield, 1 Boy’s namesake and grandfather, moved south to live in Bluff and married Elizabeth Honor. 2

CHAPTER 2
Boy’s father William had married Ritea ‘Ruby’ Rehu 1 with whom he shared a four-year-old child. 2 In mid 1907, he had moved to Port Chalmers to work at the port’s new graving dock. He had only been in the job for three weeks when he was joined by his wife and child. The family was renting a house believed to be the oldest in Port Chalmers with no fire escape and which was infested with rats. Mrs Haberfield also brought her eleven-year-old daughte