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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Mr. Frank Simmons Woodward
Mr. Frank Simmons Woodward , Manager of the Moorabool Estate, is the second son of the late Mr F. Woodward, manager of the National Bank at Invercargill, and was born at the Thames in 1873. He was educated principally at Riverton, and was brought up to farming in Southland and Canterbury. He served for four years and three months under Mr John Tennant, of Heddon Bush station, and for four years under the late Mr John Grigg, of Longbeach, Canterbury. Mr Woodward farmed on his own account at Waikiwi for eighteen months, but afterwards sold out and was appointed to the management of the Moorabool estate in 1899. He served for two years in the Southland Mounted Rifles. As a Freemason, he is connected with Lodge Taringatura, No. 100, New Zealand Constitution, Lumsden; and as an Oddfellow, he joined Waterton Lodge, Manchester Unity, near Longbeach, Canterbury, in 1896. Mr Woodward is secretary of the Dipton branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union. He has been a frequent exhibitor of Clydesdale horses, with which he has been a prize-taker at Southland shows.