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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
His Worship The Mayor, Mr. John Henderson Reed
His Worship The Mayor, Mr. John Henderson Reed , was elected Mayor in 1898, in succession to Sir Joseph Ward, and has been re-elected yearly up to the present time (1904). He is the only son of the late Mr. James Reed, chemist, was born in 1869 at Invercargill, and educated at the Bluff and Invercargill High Schools. In 1886, he joined the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company at the Bluff as a junior, and was subsequently promoted, to the Invercargill office, where he remained some years. He was removed back to the Bluff in 1889 to fill the position of agent. He was initiated into Freemasonry in Lodge Fortitude. No. 64, N.Z.C.; afterwards became secretary, filled the office of junior warden, and was elected worshipful master in 1895; he subsequently took the R.A. degree in Lodge Southern Cross, Invercargill. He was first elected to the Campbelltown Borough Council in 1895, and was re-elected in 1897.