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In Terry Cole’s words:
We are perhaps fortunate that my Uncle Eric, (W.E.H.Creamer) had the insight to put on paper what he remembered of his family’s life in the New Zealand Lighthouse Service. Obviously the early years were recounted to him by his parents but they none the less provide the completion of the tale.
In later life he visited some of the Stations at which his parents served and this reminded him of some of the events and hardships that were thrust upon them.
Captain Bollons and the GSS Hinemoa are well documented in various archives.
As you will read, from quite an early age, he was always writing things, as school projects or to send off to the Boy Scout Magazine. He also wrote other manuscripts about his days fishing for a living on Pioneer 2.
This book represents the events as they actually happened and this is borne out by my own research into things he described happening to him and his family. Other authors describe some of the stations in similiar vein to my uncle Eric and have used parts of this book, of which a manuscript copy is held by the Turnbull Library, in their own publications, and the “Papers Past” website has given me confirmation of many of the events he gives as taking place. When he wrote his manuscript in the mid 1960s, he could not have envisaged that his nephew would finish the task and put it in print. I am honoured to have been the one who did it.”
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