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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Mr. William Guild
Mr. William Guild , sometime of Seacliff, was born in Kirriemuir, Forfarshire, Scotland, in 1839, and came to Port Chalmers in the ship “Resolute,” on her first voyage, in March, 1864. After working as a gardener for Mr. Beverley, of Dunedin, for six years, he settled on a forty-acre farm at Seacliff, where, besides dairying, he carried on bee culture, and had as many as thirty colonies of those busy and profitable workers. Mr. Guild married a daughter of Mr. T. Smith, an old settler, and had five sons and four daughters. He died in December, 1902.
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The late Mr. W. Guild.