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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Canterbury Provincial District]

Mr. James Rowe

Mr. James Rowe was elected to the City Council in 1889, for the North-East Ward, and was a member for three years. He had been previously for three years a member of the Avon Road Board, and was subsequently a member of the New Brighton Borough Council for four years. He is a Cornishman, was born in 1845, educated at Helston, and brought up as a farmer and miller. Mr. Rowe came to Lyttelton in 1874, by the ship “Isles of the South,” and was storekeeping in Madras Street for twenty-three years. Shortly after his arrival in the colony he took up land at Shirley, and in 1878 went into the business of pig-breeding, in which he has been very successful.