The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]
Mr. R. M. Houston
Mr. R. M. Houston, Member in the House of Representatives for the Bay of Islands, is the son of a clergyman, and was born at Belfast, Ireland, in 1846. He arrived in New Zealand when he was about twenty years of age, and was for several years school teaching at Otahuhu. After that he became a storekeeper at Mongonui, where he was afterwards chairman of the county council. Mr. Houston first entered Parliament in 1890. At the general election of 1900 he was opposed by Mr. N. A. McLeod, and the voting was—Houston, 2002; McLeod, 1935.