Thomas John Tunks

MR. T. J. TUNKS, member of the Wairoa Harbour Board, resides in Frasertown, and was one of the first to take up land in the Waikare-Moana district. He was born in Warwickshire, England, in the early “fifties,” came to New Zealand with his parents by the ship “Northumberland,” in the year 1861, and was educated at Prince Albert College. In 1870 he left Auckland for Wairoa, and after spending five years in commercial pursuits, he acquired property at Waikare-Moana. As county councillor, chairman of school, licensing, library, and church committees, etc., Mr. Tunks has taken an active part in public matters, and is highly esteemed throughout the district. Source: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Taranaki, Hawke's Bay & Wellington Provincial Districts] (1908).

TUNKS On Monday January 1st at St John's, Wanganui, Thomas J., second son of the late Captain Thomas Tunks. [Bay Of Plenty Times, Volume XL, Issue 5751, 3 January 1912, Page 4] Word was received yesterday by private wire of the death at St John's, Wanganui of Mr Mr Thomas J Tunks, second son of the late Captain Thomas Tunks, of Tauranga ...[Bay Of Plenty Times, Volume XL, Issue 5751, 3 January 1912, Page 4].