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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Canterbury Provincial District]

Mr. William Georgre Woodford

Mr. William Georgre Woodford. Manager of the Hardware Department of the New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Association, was born in London in 1850, and educated at Home and in the Colony. Mr. Woodford arrived in Lyttelton in the ship “Ivanhoe” in 1864, and after completing his school course at Scott's High School, was brought up to mercantile life in Christchurch. For seven and a half years Mr. Woodford was engaged in the railway service as a telegraphist and booking-clerk and in charge of the stationery and ticket printing department. Retiring from the service in 1877, he commenced business as a general storekeeper in Richmond, where two years later he was unfortunately burned out. Subsequently, Mr. Woodford was respectively with Mr. C. B. Taylor, American importer, Mr. E. W. Roper, auctioneer, and Mr. F. W. Isitt. In 1889, he joined the Co-operative Association as assistant in the hardware department, of which he became manager in 1894. He is a member of the Order of Oddfellows, Manchester Unity, into which he was initiated in 1870, and is a member of the Loyal Perseverance Lodge, Woolston, and a Past District Officer. Since 1888 he has occupied the position of District Treasurer of the order, and on his retiring from the office of a trustee of his lodge, he was presented with a medal in recognition of his services. Mr. Woodford was for over seven years in No. 1 Company of Christchurch Artillery Volunteers. He was married in 1877 to a daughter of Mr. J. Sandford, of Heathcote Valley; she died in 1885, leaving two sons and one daughter. He was married a second time in 1891 to the daughter of Mr. G. T. Gibbons, late of Oxford, by whom he has three sons living.

Standish and Preece, photo. Mr. W. G. Woodford.

Standish and Preece, photo.
Mr. W. G. Woodford.