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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Mr. Hugh Henry Wallace
Mr. Hugh Henry Wallace , sometime of Awamoa Creek, was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, and became a gamekeeper under the Earl of Rosebery, with whom he served for a number of years at Bambogle Castle. He came to Port Chalmers by the ship “Saville” in 1862, and subsequently had some experience on the West Coast diggings. In 1866 Mr. Wallace settled in the Oamaru district, where he constructed several rcads, incoulding Wansbeck Street, in the borough of Oamaru, and the Awamoa Cutting; and he also had the contract for the Oamaru Reservoir. Subsequently Mr. Wallace was engaged for many years in cropping on the Waikakahi estate, South Canterbury, and when it was cut up for closer settlement he became an original selector, and built a house and effected many improvements on his property. His home, however, was for a period of twenty-nine years at Awamoa Creek, near Oamaru, where he had twenty-seven acres of leaschold land. Mr. Wallace was always a keen sportsman. He was married, in 1861, to a daughter of the late Mr. Alexander Smith, of Lanarkshire, Scotland, and at his death in December, 1902, at the age of sixtysix, left three sons. His wife died in 1898.
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The late Mr. and Mrs H. H. Wallace.