Author talk:Richard Robert Hunt

Richard Robert Hunt?

Richard Robert Hunt is mentioned in Philip Hart's THE NEW ZEALAND EXPLORATION COMPANY AND AROHA GOLD MINES LTD: THE LAST INTRODUCTION OF OVERSEAS CAPITAL TO WAIORONGOMAI

https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10289/10428/No.%2096%20exploration.doc.pdf?sequence=6
"Hunt was born in the colony, and in 1880, when (he was) a Justice of the Peace and chairman of the Ngaruawahia town and domain boards, he was described as ‘Ngaruawahia’s most prominent settler’. After managing the Waikato Steam Navigation and Coal Mining Company for ten years, he became a contractor, constructing the railway from Hamilton to Te Aroha and doing the reclamation work for the Calliope Dock in Auckland along with other large contracts. He was then appointed general manager of the Kamo Colliery Company and manager of the Auckland Roller Flour Mills.
‘After spending five years in London in mining and financial circles’, he was appointed the company’s general manager." Thus he has possible connections with both dynamite and the Waikato.
There are extensive Papers Past references to R R Hunt which correspond to the above description. Noracrentiss (talk) 07:42, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

Obituary: https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19311003.2.109
New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20994, 3 October 1931, Page 10