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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Reid, William

Reid, William , Farmer, Pyramid. Mr Reid was born in 1857 at Eday, one of the Orkney Islands, and was brought up to farming. He came to
Mr. W. Reid.

Mr. W. Reid.

Southland about 1876, and spent the first few years after his arrival in farm work and nursery gardening. In 1881 he took up a farm of 210 acres, under the deferred payment system, and afterwards acquired his present property of 155 acres of leasehold. Mr Reid has thoroughly cultivated his farm, and in his garden he has a splendid grape vine, which ripens its fruit in the open air. There are also about twenty bushes of heather, two of which produce white flowers, although taken off the ordinary pink heather. Mr Reid paid a flying visit to the Old Country some years ago. He is chairman of the Riversdale branch of the Farmers' Union, and a member of the Southland Executive of the same organisation, and he has been a member of Loyal Riversdale Lodge, Manchester Unity. Independent Order of Oddfellows, since its inception. He was at one time a lieutenant in the Riversdale Rifles, and was a member of the first Riversdale school committee, and of the first Presbyterian church committee in the same district. Mr Reid was married, in 1898, to a daughter of the late Mr Donald Munro, an old settler in the Riversdale district, and has two daughters.