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Older residents of Gisborne might remember "Soapy Tom" (above), who lived in a packing-case home at the foot of Kaiti Hill, about where the freezing works now end. Soapy Tom, it is said, was gravely disappointed in love, and spent the rest of his days making sandsoap for a bare living.

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But it would be a long memory which could recall this house (below) further round the road to the Kaiti beach, on the hill above the Cook memorial. This was the home of Bishop W. L. Williams, built while he was Archdeacon of Waiapu about 1865. In this house Mrs Wilson, wife of Captain Wilson who was killed in the massacre, was given shelter while awaiting passage to Napier for treatment for her wounds. The house was demolished in the early 1900's. (Pictures and information from Mr S. Ledger).