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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Canterbury Provincial District]

Mr. H. Winter

Mr. H. Winter, J.P., Manager of the three stations, was born in 1842, in Tasmania, where he received the first part of his education, which was finished in England. For some years he followed a pastoral life in Australia, and came to New Zealand in 1867 in the ship “South Australia,” which was wrecked at Port Chalmers. Mr. Winter was for ten years manager for Messrs Tancred and Allan at Ashburton. He afterwards entered into farming on his own account, and followed page 954 it for seven years. Mr. Winter was then appointed superintendent of the Canterbury properties of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company and held the position for ten years and a half. He was appointed to his present position in 1896. Mr. Winter has been on the Commission of the Peace since 1870. He was elected one of the first members of the Ashburton County. Council, and took an active part in organising the church and the school, and in promoting the Agricultural and Pastoral Association and athletic sports. Mr. Winter was married, in 1869, to Miss Richardson, of Tasmania, and has two sons and four daughters.