Herbert Charlton Howitt was a farmer and gold prospector who arrived from Australia in New Zealand to farm in 1860. He led a working party contracted by the Canterbury Provincial Government to cut a track to the West Coast, via the Hurunui Plains, Harper Pass and Lake Brunner to the Grey River mouth. Howitt, together with two other members of his party, Robert Little and Henry Miller, drowned on Lake Brunner on 27 Jun 1863.
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