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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Mr. Frederick Friend Day

Mr. Frederick Friend Day, Manager for Messrs. Brown, Campbell and Co., Mangawhare, was born in Illinois, United States of America, in 1852. He went to England when a child and came to Auckland with his parents in 1857, and was educated at Mr. Gorrie's Academy and at St. Paul's. For a number of years he acted as general manager for the Una Quartz Mining Company at the Thames, then went to Coromandel, where he put down the shaft at the Conquering Hero and Premier mines. He afterwards became general manager of the Kamo Colliery Company, which position he held for eight years. In 1894 he left Kamo and was appointed general manager for Messrs. Brown, Campbell and Co., at Mangawhare. Mr. Day was chairman of the Kamo Town Board for ten years, and also for a long time chairman of the school committee and licensing board. Both at the Thames and at Kamo, he was treasurer and a vestry-man of the Episcopal church at those places, and superintendent of the Sunday school at the Thames. He is a commissioner of the school and chairman of the library committee at Dargaville, and a Justice of the Peace for the Colony. He is also president of the Mangawhare Football Club and Choral Society, and vice-president of the Mutual Improvement Society. Mr. Day is married to a sister of the Hon. A. J. Cadman, formerly Minister of Mines, and has two daughters and one son.

Mr. F. F. Day.Hanna, photo.

Mr. F. F. Day.
Hanna, photo.