Alfred Warbrick

Alfred Patchett Warbrick (24 February 1860 – 19 May 1940) was a New Zealand boatbuilder, rugby player and tourist guide.

Biography Warbrick was the first of five children of Abraham Warbrick, an English immigrant, and Nga Karauna Paerau, a Māori woman and the daughter of a Ngāti Rangitihi chief. He never accepted that the Pink and White Terraces at Lake Rotomahana were destroyed, and became involved in the public debates concerning their fate. In 1903 he was appointed as head guide of the trip to Waimangu Geyserthen the largest geyser in the worldorganised by the Department of Tourist and Health Resorts. On 30 August 1903, the geyser suddenly erupted killing Joe and three other tourists in vicinity.