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Our thanks to London carpenter Samuel Parnell (1810-1890) whose insistence in 1840 on eight hours work, eight hours sleep and eight hours recreation started it all.
The story goes that a fellow passenger on the Duke of Roxburgh, shipping agent George Hunter asked him to build him a store at Petone when they arrived in February 1840. Parnell's response has entered New Zealand folklore: