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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Canterbury Provincial District]

Sadler, Henry George

Sadler, Henry George, Farmer, Adair. Mr. Sadler was born in 1854 in Suffolk, England, and came to Lyttelton by the ship “Clontari,” with his parents, in the year 1859. He was brought up on his father's farm at Templeton. Later on he removed to South Canterbury, and started farming on a small scale near Timaru. In 1882 he selected twenty-four acres on the Adair settlement, and has since increased his area to forty-five acres, which he works as a dairy and mixed farm. For several years Mr. Sadler has been a member of the local school committee. He is also connected with the Order of Oddfellows in Timaru, and is a director of the Timaru Dairy Factory. Mr. Sadler was married, on the 23rd of July, 1879, to a daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Kelk, of Rockwellgreen, Wellington, Somersetshire, England, and has five adopted children—three sons and two daughters.