At the Quay Street jetty on 30 November 1908 the Wimmera was embarked by the Methodist missionary the Rev. William Edward Bromilow and his wife, Harriet. The couple had sailed from Auckland for Sydney. It was the end of a three-month visit to the Dominion…
They had arrived in Auckland aboard the Union Company’s steamer SS Mokoia on Sunday 30 August 1908. It was the couple’s first visit to New Zealand and they had come on the invitation…to conduct a series of conventions with the aim of raising funds to both provide for more missionaries in India and to purchase two new auxiliary steamers to support the missionary work in New Guinea and in the Solomon Islands.
Rev. Bromilow was a missionary who had spent some 17 years working in New Guinea before undertaking work in the Fiji Islands. His wife,…, who had supported his work was…
SS Wimmera 