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

Kydd, John

Kydd, John , Farrier, and General Black-smith, Ngapara. Mr. Kydd was born at New-castle-on-Tyne, England, on the 9th of September, 1860, and served part of his apprenticeship as a blacksmith in the Old Country. He came to Port Chalmers in 1879, by the ship “Dunedin,” and two years later removed to Maheno, where he resided for five years before establishing his business at Ngapara in 1886. The premises include a smithy and carpenter's shop, with a residence adjoining, and there is an acre and a half of freehold land attached. Mr. Kydd has also sixty acres of the Windsor Park estate, which he holds under a lease in perpetuity. He has been a member of the Ngapara school committee for a number of years, and was one of the founders of the Protestant Alliance Society at Ngapara, and at one time secretary. As a Freemason Mr. Kydd is attached to Lodge Ngapara, New Zealand Constitution, in which he has filled the Junior Warden's chair. He has served for two years as a volunteer in the North Otago Mounted Rifles. Mr. Kydd was married on the 1st of June, 1887, to a daughter of Mr. John Rankin, of Maheno, and has four sons and three daughters.