First Magistrate of Chatham Islands

From Moriori: A People Rediscovered, by Michael King (Penguin, 2017), Kindle Loc. 1766ff.: Archibald Watson Shand, who arrived at Chatham Island in July 1855 to become the first resident magistrate and collector of customs, wrote to [George] Selwyn that same year while the bishop was on the island, explaining to his lordship how things were (and describing scenes which might have been concealed from episcopal eyes): … The resident magistrate adds his disappointment that even Wi Tamihana, the catechist in Waitangi, kept several slaves, and he asked Selwyn to ‘prevail on him to not only set a better example in general for the future — but in practical proof of his sincerity, to begin by liberating his slaves.’ Shand took a census the same year. It revealed that the Moriori population was now down to 205: 106 men, 76 women and 23 children (the figure still, of course, excludes those on Auckland or Stewart Islands; and those who are of mixed Maori-Moriori blood, who were classified as…

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