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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Mr. Thomas Hodgson

Mr. Thomas Hodgson, the Manager and Secretary of the Northern Boot and Shoe Manufacturing Company, Auckland, was born in Etherley, Durham, England, in 1854, and is a son of Mr. John Hodgson, contractor, of Durham. Mr. Hodgson was educated at Darlington, entered commercial life in that city, and was for ten years with the Darlington Iron and Steel Company. On comining to Auckland, in 1879, he accepted an appointment with B. Gittos and Son, tanners,and afterward with J. J. Austin and Co., boot manufacturers, as manager of their Wangnui branch. While thus situated, Mr. Hodgson mastered all branches of the trade, and when the Northern Company was started he was offered the secretaryship, and was afterwards appointed manager. When the Auckland boot trade decided to send a presentative to the tariff convention held at Wellington in 1895, Mr. Hodgson was chosen as the representative, and rendered special service in securing reductions on various lines. Mr. Hodgson has taken much interest in the cause of education, and has been a member of the comitttee of Newton East and West and Mount Eden schools; but it is in connection with Church and Sunday School work, that he has been best known. As circuit steward of Pitt Street Wesleyan Chureh, and representative to Wellington and Dunedin conferences, (superintendent of the Archhill Sunday page 384 school; vice-president of the Kingsland Christian Endeavour Society, and a delegate to the Auckland Christian Endeavour Union Mr. Hodgson has done some hard and valuable work. He is a Rechabite of many years' standing, and an enthusiastic supporter of athletics. Mr. Hodgson held a seat on the Executive of the Auckland Industrial and Mining Exhibition; he was chairman of the advertising and printing committee, and a member of the finance committee. In 1876 Mr. Hodgson was married to Miss Wakerley, daughter of the late Mr. Wakerley, of Auckland, formerly of Darlington, and he has one daughter and two sons.

Mr. T. Hodgson.

Mr. T. Hodgson.