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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Edwards, Alfred William

Edwards, Alfred William, General Storekeeper and Gum Buyer, Kaikohe. Branch stores at Rakautoa and Whate-whateanga. Bankers, National Bank of New Zealand, Auckland. The business was established by Mr. C. E. Smith in 1885 and taken over in 1888 by Mr. Edwards, who has since extended its operations and opened two branch stores. He keeps several packhorses, besides two bullock-teams employed in carrying provisions to the gumfields. Mr. Edwards is a capital man of business and has made himself thoroughly popular throughout the district. He was born in London in 1853, and followed the trade of a house furnishing salesman for ten years in the City and on the Edgware Road. He landed in Australia per ship “Lusitania” in 1880 and crossed over to Auckland, where he started as a grocer in Newton Road and afterwards at Newmarket. Mr. Edwards settled at Kaikohe in 1888, when he took over his present business, and, later on, he acquired that of Mr. G. W. S. Patterson. He is married to a daughter of Mr. Charles Alderton, of Remuera, and has two sons and one daughter.

Hanna, photo. Mr. A. W. Edwards.

Hanna, photo. Mr. A. W. Edwards.