The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]
Councillor Alexander Wilson
Councillor Alexander Wilson
has held a seat on the Waitemata County Council for the last nine years, and has looked well after the wants of the district. He was instrumental in obtaining a grant of £500 from the Government, for expenditure on reproductive works at Birkenhead. Mr. Wilson was chairman of the old Road Board before it was merged into the council. He was the first chairman of the local school committee, and has been for twenty-five years president of the local Temperance Society, which he was instrumental in forming. Mr. Wilson was born in Ayrshire, in 1828, and followed farming till he left for Auckland in 1863, by the ship “Portland.” On his arrival he went to Waiwera under engagement to the late Mr. Robert Graham, then Superintendent of Auckland, and after a stay of over four years at Waiwera, he took charge of Mr. Graham's place at Ellerslie for six months. In 1868, Mr. Wilson purchased his present holding of 100 acres at Birkenhead, and carried on farming for some years, but has been obliged to
withdraw from active work, and he now leases the farm to his sons, who devote themselves mainly to fruit growing and dairying.
Councillor and Mrs. A. Wilson.