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TRUST MEMBERS
Mailing address – P O Box 28-018 Remuera Auckland 1541
Des Meiklejohn (Chairman) 8 Paradise Point Place, One Tree Point 0118 -Email – desmeiklejohn@hotmail.com
Graham Alison 15 Norana Road, Remuera (PO Box 28-018 Remuera) – Email – g.alison@xtra.co.nz – Ph (09) 5203467
Ian Meiklejohn 836 Leigh Road, Matakana, Warkworth –
Email – ianjunem@hotmail.com
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Email – noelandnita1@gmail.com
Karen Lee-Meiklejohn – 6 Montrose Terrace, Mairangi Bay
Email – leewhanau@xtra.co.nz
Dan Meiklejohn – 79 Matakana Valley Road, Matakana
Email – dmeiklejohn@advantagegroup.com
Website Enquiries….
Any enquiries regarding this website, please contact Des Meiklejohn desmeiklejohn@hotmail.com. The website is being regularly updated with new materiel or indeed revisions are also added as and when information becomes available. Please forward relevant photos and histories for inclusion on the website. A close reader of the website will see some inconsistencies between some articles – this reflects the nature of recollections and retold stories.


Hi I am trying to get details of ship Eunice built by D Darrach at Big Omaha to build a model of her under construction. I am a volunteer @ the Warkworth Museum and have some details of her from information held in our archives. Can you help. Pete McKinnon
Hello – just wanted to know if the book – A History of New Zealand Scows & Their Trades by David Langdon is still available for purchase through the Big Omaha Maritime Historical Trust and if so could you please email me back on rdavison@xtra.co.nz or texting me 021 225 8584
thanks Rob
Hello, I am trying to find photos os scows carrying sheep and cattle and particularly of cattle beasts being hoisted aboards a scow with the scows own lifting gear plus cattle swimming ashore after being transported on a scow. i need to be able to use these images in an ebook.
Thanks,David
Hello, I am trying to find photos os scows carrying sheep and cattle and particularly of cattle beasts being hoisted aboards a scow with the scows own lifting gear plus cattle swimming ashore after being transported on a scow. i need to be able to use these images in an ebook.
Thanks,David
Are you still selling “A History of NZ Scows and Their Trade”? If so how do I purchase? If not can you direct me to a source?