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

Councillor Newton Julius Jensen

Councillor Newton Julius Jensen , who has represented the South Riding in Stewart Island County Council since 1903, was born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, in 1870. He was educated in his native place, and went to sea in 1885, and landed at Port Chalmers from the ship “Orpheus” in 1888. He settled at Half Moon Bay in 1889, and has since been connected with the fishing and boat-building industries. For some time he was engaged in storekeeping, but sold out in 1903. Mr Jensen accompanied Professor Black, of Otago University, on a prospecting expedition to Pegasus, where they were successful in finding what is believed to be payable tin. Mr Jensen owns the quarter of an acre of land on which his residence stands. He is a member of the local Presbyterian church committee. Mr Jensen was married, in 1893, to a daughter of the late Mr Thomas Leask, of Half Moon Bay, and has two sons and two daughters.