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

Evans, Louis

Evans, Louis , Farmer, “Meadowbank,” Long Bush. Mr Evans was born at Ashford, in Shropshire, England, in 1876, and educated partly at the parish school, and partly at a boarding school at Little Hereford. He engaged in farm work until coming to New Zealand in 1889, and in 1892, he he and his brother, Mr T. Evans, took up “Meadowbank,” a farm of 467 acres, which they held jointly until 1897, when they divided the place and dissolved partnership. Mr Louis Evans has been a director of the Woodlands Saleyards Company, Limited, since its inception. He was married in January, 1903, to a daughter of Mr J. Laidlaw, senior, of Woodlands, and has one daughter.