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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Webber, Henry , Farmer and Butcher, Ngapara. Mr. Webber was born on the 21st of June, 1851, in Devonshire, England, and was educated at the Silverton Grammar School. His father was a farmer and threshing and sawmill owner, so that Mr. Webber gained experience of that kind of work at an early age. He arrived at Port Chalmers by the ship “Calypso,” in 1879, and soon afterwards settled in the Ngapara district, where he bought an interest in a threshing mill. He subsequently sold out, and bought forty-six acres of freehold adjoining the township; on this property his residence and shop have been erected. Mr. Webber works his land as a dairy farm and milks about twenty-four cows, and since 1899 he has also carried on business as a butcher. He has served for a number of years on the local school committee, is a Past Master of the Ngapara Lodge of Freemasons, No. 68, New Zealand Constitution, and has occupied the chief chair in the Order of Oddfellows at Ngapara. Mr. Webber's volunteer experience commenced in the Old Country in the First Royal Devonshire Yeomanry, under Captain Buller. a brother of the general whose name is so well known in connection with the South African war. Mr. Webber was married in 1887, to a daughter of the late Mr. James Lindsay, of Weston, and has three sons and four daughters.