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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Mr. William Norman
Mr. William Norman , Senior Partner of the firm of Norman and Son, was born in 1852, in Herefordshire, in England. He came to New Zealand by the ship “British Queen” in 1883, and settled at Woodend, Canterbury, where he was employed in a flax mill for ten years. He afterwards conducted a flaxmill on his own account, and, later on, removed to Westerfield, near Ashburton. In 1900, Mr Norman returned to Southland, and started a mill at Waiau, which he conducted for a year and six months, when he established the mill at Waimatuku. Mr Norman was married, in 1877, to Miss Chinnery, of Norfolk, England, and has one son.