The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Canterbury Provincial District]
Mr. William H. Allen
Mr. William H. Allen, Librarian of the Belfast Public Library, is a native of Worcestershire, England, where he was educated and served an apprenticeship to the wool trade. He was married in Edgbaston, Birmingham, and sailed for New Zealand in 1874 by the “Pylades,” which arrived at Lyttelton on the 16th of December in that year. Mr. Allen took up 110 acres of farm land on the lower Styx, and cultivated it for some years. He has been in the district since 1874. except two years during which he was in business as a dealer near Rangiora. He then removed to Belfast, and has been engaged in the wool department of the Belfast Freezing Works for ten years.
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Mr. W. H. Allen.