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This page from a visitor book records the 1910 visit of Robert Falcon Scott and his wife, Kathleen Scott, to Warrimoo, the Papanui home of Joseph Kinsey. This was shortly before Scott left on his final voyage to the Antarctic, a journey from which he would not return.
Reference: Joseph Kinsey visitor book, Joseph Kinsey Collection, 1940.193.68 pg 54, Canterbury Museum
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