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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Shepherd John Goodwin

page 581

Shepherd John Goodwin, Native Interpreter, Whangaroa. Mr. Shepherd was born at Kirikiri, Bay of Islands, in 1838, and is a son of the late Rev. James Shepherd, one of the early missionaries who landed in 1819. Mr. Shepherd was educated at Wesley College, Auckland. He went to Australia in 1858 and was employed with his brother in an orange orchard at Ryde, on the Parramatta river. Returning to New Zealand two years later, Mr. Shepherd entered upon the work of a settler at Inumia, near Kaeo, till the death of his father in 1881, and after the death of his brother, Mr. S. E. Shepherd in 1882, he took over the old homestead and its hundred acres of land, to which he has added by purchase, and most of which he has cleared and grassed and on which is a large dwelling partly erected by his father in 1838. In public affairs he has always taken a leading part, having been a member of Whangaroa County Council since 1890, and for many years a member of the old Kaeo Roard Board. Mr. Shepherd was also one of the first members of the Mongonui County Council. He is a Past Master in Freemasonry, and the portrait produced herewith shows Mr. Shepherd in the regalia of a senior warden.

Mr. J. G. Shepherd.

Mr. J. G. Shepherd.