Title: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Author: Cyclopedia Company Limited

Publication details: The Cyclopedia Company, Limited, 1905, Christchurch

Part of: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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Councillor William Gibb was elected to the Port Chalmers Borough Council in 1903, and is a member of the Works, Lighting and Sanitary Committees. Mr. Gibb was born in Dysart, Fifeshire, Scotland, in 1874, and came out to New Zealand with his parents when taree years of age in the ship “Waipa.” He was educated at the Port Chalmers District High School, and subsequently served an apprenticeship to the painting trade with the Union Steamship Company. Mr. Gibb was for four years caretaker and treasurer of the Port Chalmers Presbyterian Church. He is an enthusiastic member of the Port Chalmers Bowling Club, and has also taken a prominent part in the temperance movement, being secretary of the Port Chalmers branch of the United Temperance Reform Council. Since 1891 Mr. Gibb has been a member of the All Nations Lodge, 172, Ancient Order of Druids. He was married, in 1897, to a daughter of Mr. W. Rouse, an old resident of Port Chalmers.