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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Mr. William Parr Baker

Mr. William Parr Baker, Old Colonist, residing at Mount Eden, was born at Wednesbury, Staffordshire, England, in 1857, and is the third son of Mr. Frederick Baker, one of the Albertland settlers, who arrived by the ship “Matilda Wattenbach” in 1862. Mr. Baker finished his education at the Auckland College and Grammar School, under Mr. Farquhar McRae, and afterwards entered the oldestablished firm of Messrs McArthur and Co., warehousemen, with whom he remained for twenty years, when they closed the Auckland branch of their business. Mr. Baker has been an enthusiastic follower and supporter of athletics generally; he is a vice-president of the Ponsonby District Football Club, and president of the Tabernacle Football Club. He is a deacon of the Tabernacle Baptist Church, and superintendent of its Sunday school, of which he was secretary for eleven years. He has been a vice-president of the Tabernancle Band of Hope for five years, and a member of the Y.P.S.C.E. Society; and he is on the committee, and was also for two years president, of the Auckland auxiliary of the New Zealand Baptist Missionary Society, labouring in India.