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

Author: Cyclopedia Company Limited

Publication details: The Cyclopedia Company, Limited, 1905, Christchurch

Part of: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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Musselwhite, William , Produce Merchant, General Carrier, and Farmer, Dipton. Mr Musselwhite has a forty-two-acre farm on the Dipton Flat, and carries on his business at Dipton, where he also holds the agency for the Royal Insurance Company, and for the Kaitangata Coal Company. He was born at New Forest, England, in 1845, and educated in Fawley parish. He was employed in the building trade at Cowes, in the Isle of Wight, and on public works in various parts of England, before coming to Lyttelton by the ship “Lady Jocelyn,” in 1872. From Lyttelton he went to the Bluff, in the small steamer “Wellington.” In 1874, Mr Mussel-white settled in the Dipton district, where he bought his farm three years later. He was a member of the Riverside school committee for many years and afterwards commissioner for the same school. He is attached to the Acorn Lodge of Druids, Invercargill. Mr Musselwhite was married, in 1877, to a daughter of Mr Henry Cooper, coachbuilder, Gladstone, and has three sons.