Burnt Out. — The fishermen's cottage on the Boulder Bank at the bar was destroyed by fire on Monday night at about 9 o'clock. It appears that Messrs Callard and Gibson, the occupants of the cottage, were fishing on the sea at that time, when they noticed flames on the land, and pulling in discovered that the fire had a good hold of their dwelling. With the assistance of Mr Rogers, the pilot, they managed to save their boatshed and boats, but all their clothes and other household effects were destroyed. The hospitable fishermen at the bar are well known and popular characters, especially to the numerous visitors to that pleasurable locality, and general sympathy will be felt for them in their misfortune. -Marlborough Express, 2/5/1894.
MARLBOROUGH LAND BOARD
Messrs Callard and Gibson applied that runs No. 49, the lease of which will expire on March 1st, be reoffered at a reduced rental. Resolved to have the license reoffered for a term of 5 years, at the upset annual rent of £7, one of the conditions to provide for free ingress and egress for picnic and shooting parties. -Marlborough Express, 11/6/1896.
OBITUARY.
DEATH OF AN OLD IDENTITY.
Yesterday death claimed an old identity — we were nearly saying old landmark — in the person of Mr John Gibson, who lived on the Boulder Bank, near the Wairau Bar, for a period extending over thirty years. It separates a well-known twain, the mate of deceased being Mr Tom Callard, and the two being familiarly known as "Jack and Tom." The popularity of the Wairau Bar as a recreative resort is largely due to the hospitality of Messrs Gibson and Callard, who have in their time rowed many hundreds of visitors across the estuary and extended to them their courtesy as the hosts of the one residence on the Boulder Bank. Deceased, who was 73 years of age, was born in Arbroath, Scotland, and came out to Sydney in 1851 as a sailor. In the early seventies be met Mr Callard at Kaituna, Marlborough, and then commenced their lengthy association. Settling together at the Bar, where eventually they purchased the freehold of two acres from Mr W. Sinclair, they engaged in the fishing industry, and did much hard work in rowing their whaleboat to and from Port Underwood to get their harvests of the sea. They were the principal suppliers of Blenheim with fish in the early days. When they took up their position on the Boulder Bank the traffic up and down the river was principally carried on by means of whaleboats, and they witnessed the development of the steamer traffic from its initial stages. Deceased was unmarried. A few months ago illness compelled him to come to town, and he was kindly treated at the Club Hotel, where he passed away yesterday afternoon. Many people will have a kindly thought of old "Jack," and will extend sympathy to his companion. -Marlborough Express, 20/1/1905.
The funeral of the late Mr Thomas Callard, popularly known to visitors to the Wairau Bar as "Old Tom," was attended yesterday by a number of friends of the deecased. The ceremony at the graveside was conducted by the Rev. R. de Lambert, and the following acted as pall-bearers: — Messrs W. Gamble, A. Draper, F Beamsley, S. Tapp, E, Cheesman, and H. March. - Marlborough Express, 20/7/1912.
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