Town Clerk of the Borough of New Brighton, was born in 1832 in Hampshire, England, where he was also educated and brought up as a civil engineer. Mr. Blake came out to Australia in the fifties, and after some years in the sister Colonies crossed the Tasman Sea to Port...

Peter Donnelly (artist) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   Peter Donnelly is an artist based in Christchurch, New Zealand who has raked over 1000 works into the New Brighton sands.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttwxawO0ESc     ...

Mr. George William Bishop, Headmaster of the New Brighton Public School, has been in charge since its establishment. He was born on Banks' Peninsula in 1858, was educated at various public schools, and is an undergraduate of Canterbury College, where he studied for...

Councillor Henry Rishton Walker, Member of the New Brighton Borough Council, is a native of Oldham, England. He was educated at King William's College, Castletown, Isle of Man, and afterwards apprenticed to the engineering trade at the Barrow engineering works. In...

Mr. Horace Daniel Pine was born in Dover, England, in 1856, and arrived at Lyttelton with his parents by the ship “Cameo,” in 1859. He was educated at the St. Albans school under the late Mr. John Broughton, and at Durham Street school, and served an apprenticeship as...

Councillor Alfred H. Wyatt, who has for several years been a Member of the New Brighton Borough Council, is referred elsewhere to in connection with his store at New Brighton.

Councillor William Bellamy was elected to the New Brighton Borough Council in 1900. He is a native of Canterbury. His parents arrived in New Zealand in 1859, and resided in Poverty Bay at the time of the Te Kooti massacres. Mr. Bellamy was brought up to the trade of a...