Update from the previous blog Life of a Timber Mill Manager Cut Short.

Update from the previous blog Life of a Timber Mill Manager Cut Short.

 

I felt there was a need to update the information from a previous blog I had written in the past. I won’t change the blog itself, but I will place the update here and include some information that was disputed within some comments. I think it would be easier to write this up instead as a comment. I will try to clarify much of the information through official records such as Births, Deaths and Marriages. Names of people can be different to what you know. It is not my intention to deliberately upset people, but it does happen.

It was mentioned that John Arthur Gabolinscy’s name was Jack and I have looked at the records and every official record I do have has the name as John.. The only place the records call him Jack is actually on the service records for the Second World War. The service record would be something I will research in the future.

The birth certificate for Hartley does state that his name was in fact Hartley within the birth certificate and within records through the national archives in New Zealand Hartley’s name does exist especially within the Forestry service for the 1970s. He might appear elsewhere within other records. 

While records are restricted through the National archives of the murder trial is restricted until around the year 2051 including any reference to William Giovanni Silveo Fiori including police records except for the coroner’s inquest. There is one way to be able to gain some insight into what the house at the time looks like. It does sound morbid, but interesting as well. I was able to gain access to detailed drawings of the house and a layout to the house within the village of Minginui. Measurements had been taken as well. The records are from the Rotorua Forest Field Book with details written by J Gabolinsky and J Overington, which includes a survey of the pay roll robbery. It was actually by chance I had found this book in Auckland.

As time goes on more records are usually found by accident, but a search through the New Zealand Archives does bring forth some little gems of information that had not been available before, but there are ways of getting around the records including checking to see if you can have permission to have access to certain records.

Life of a Timber Mill Manager cut short