Moody, Joseph Byron, Farmer, Tuahiwi, Maori Pa. Mr. Moody was born in Leicestershire, page 449 England, in 1847, and accompanied his parents to Lyttelton in the ship “Maori,” in 1858. The family settled at Maori Pa, where Mr. Moody was trained to farm work. He commenced on his own account in 1872, and has since then been actively engaged as a farmer on his leasehold property of eighty-six acres. Mr. Moody has served since 1895 on the Mandeville and Rangiora Road Board, and has also been a member of the local school committee, and of the Woodend Rifles. As a member of the Northern Society, he has taken great interest in agricultural and pastoral matters, and was for a time a class steward. In December 1872 he married the daughter of the late Mr. C. Young, of Church Bush, and has three sons and six daughters. His eldest son was a member of the Tenth New Zealand Contingent organised for military service in South Africa; the second son was a member of the Second Contingent, and after his return from South Africa, went to London as a member of the colony's Coronation Contingent.