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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Mr. John Trenwith

Mr. John Trenwith, who represented Karangahape Ward in the City Council from 1886 till 1899, was born at Penzance, Cornwall, England, in 1826. Educated in his native town, he learned the trade of a bootmaker with his father, the late Mr. John Trenwith—an old established bootmaker in Cornwall. Coming to New Zealand by the ship “Lancashire Witch” in 1865, he worked at his trade in Auckland for five years, starting in business in 1870. Mr. Trenwith has developed a large trade as a boot manufacturer and importer, and claims to be the oldest wholesale boot manufacturer now in business in the Colony. His factory in Wakefield Street is in the charge of his sons, under his supervision. Mr. Trenwith first became a member of the City Council in 1886, and was for some years a member of the Auckland Harbour Board, and of the Charitable Aid Board. As a Forester, in Court “City of Auckland,” he has been senior trustee for more than twenty years. He is a member of the Primitive Methodist Church. Mr. Trenwith was married in Cornwall, and has three sons and a daughter, who are all married.