PARK, ROBERT (1812-70), a brother of the sculptor Patrick Park, was born in Scotland, and came to Wellington with the New Zealand Company's surveying staff in the Cuba (Jan 1840). He prospected the land to Taranaki with the Deans brothers, and in 1842 was town surveyor in Wellington. He was appointed chief surveyor to the Wellington Provincial Council, but disagreed with the government on the price of waste lands. In the general election of 1860 he contested the Wellington City seat, but was at the bottom of the poll. He then moved to Canterbury where he took over his brother-in-law's station at Winchmore, living there in the winter and surveying for the Canterbury provincial government in the summer. Park died on 10 Mar 1870, and his wife (Mary Anne, sister of Robert Hart) in 1891.

Acland; Deans; Ward; Evening Post, 12 Mar 1870, 16 Sep 1936.

Reference: Volume 2, page 77

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