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

Mr. Arthur Gethin Creagh

Mr. Arthur Gethin Creagh , Crown Prosecutor at Oamaru, for the districts of Timaru and Oamaru, was born in Dublin in 1850. He arrived in Auckland in the ship “Sir George Pollock,” and subsequently removed to Dunedin, where he was educated at Mr. J. H. Shaw's grammar school. He served his articles with the late Mr. B. C. Haggitt in Dunedin, and was the first solicitor admitted by Mr. Justice Williams in August, 1875. He is a member of the Masonic Order, and is attached to Lodge Waitaki, N.Z.C., of which he is a post master, and he holds rank in the Grand Lodge of New Zealand as past senior grand warden and past grand registrar. As a volunteer Mr. Creagh served in the Dunedin Naval Brigade from 1867 to 1875, and after settling in Oamaru he became captain of the I Battery. He is now captain of the Waitaki Mounted Rifles—a corps which was formed by him in August, 1901. Mr. Creagh has held the office of Crown Prosecutor since 1885, and was appointed a notary public in 1889. He was married in 1878 to a daughter of Captain W. Sewell, late harbourmaster at Oamaru, and has three sons and two daughters.