by daniel | Jul 21, 2020 | People
Town Clerk of the Borough of New Brighton, was born in 1832 in Hampshire, England, where he was also educated and brought up as a civil engineer. Mr. Blake came out to Australia in the fifties, and after some years in the sister Colonies crossed the Tasman Sea to Port...
by Shireen Spaull | Jun 25, 2020 | People
Peter Donnelly (artist) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Peter Donnelly is an artist based in Christchurch, New Zealand who has raked over 1000 works into the New Brighton sands. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttwxawO0ESc ...
by Fay Lal | Jun 24, 2020 | People
Mr. George William Bishop, Headmaster of the New Brighton Public School, has been in charge since its establishment. He was born on Banks’ Peninsula in 1858, was educated at various public schools, and is an undergraduate of Canterbury College, where he studied...
by Peg Butterfield | Jun 24, 2020 | People
Councillor Henry Rishton Walker, Member of the New Brighton Borough Council, is a native of Oldham, England. He was educated at King William’s College, Castletown, Isle of Man, and afterwards apprenticed to the engineering trade at the Barrow engineering works....
by Shireen Spaull | Jun 24, 2020 | People
Mr. Horace Daniel Pine was born in Dover, England, in 1856, and arrived at Lyttelton with his parents by the ship “Cameo,” in 1859. He was educated at the St. Albans school under the late Mr. John Broughton, and at Durham Street school, and served an apprenticeship as...
by daniel | Jun 24, 2020 | People
Councillor Alfred H. Wyatt, who has for several years been a Member of the New Brighton Borough Council, is referred elsewhere to in connection with his store at New...
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