Joseph Hatch, 1837-1928. Mayor of Invercargill, 1877, and MP for Invercargill 1884.
Made his money from 1890-1920 by boiling penguins for oil. I am not making this up. Macquarie Island, about 200,000 a year, killing off about three million of them. Elephant seals as well, but penguins proved more economic.
There must be some way to work "penguin-boiler" into teh conversation around here...
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