Leopold Haupois was born in Normandy, France, and came to New Zealand in 1875. He worked as a bushman and fisherman around Wellington and ended his days in a cottage in Fisherman’s Bay at Makara Beach, where he died in 1940. Haupois was known to locals as ‘French Louis’.
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