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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Mr. Horace Lyne Squires

Mr. Horace Lyne Squires, residing at “Woodlands,” is a native of Liverpool, Lanneashire, where he was born in 1840, and is the son of Dr. Richard Squires, M.B.,M.R.C.S. (Eng.). He came to Otago in 1861 and was engaged in farming and stock raising, first at Tokomairiro and later at Mataura. In 1870, he removed to Lawrence (Tuapeka), where he carried on business as a conveyaneer under the Land Transfer Act, accountant in bankruptey, land and insurance agent, and was also largely interested in mining pursuits. In 1878 Mr. Squires returned with his family to England to supervise an extensive estate in North Wales, the property of his uncle, Mr. Joseph Evans, J.P., D.L., on whose death subsequently, in 1889, the estates were sold. Mr. Squires then became a director of the colliery firm of Rich and Evans and Company. Ltd.—a large concern with an output of about 1,250,000 tons of coal per annum. In 1895, he retired from the board in favour of his elder brother, who had returned from Otago for this purpose. Mr. Squires' family accompanled him back to the Colony in 1895, and in December of the same year, he purchased his present home from Mr. S. A. Miller. He married in 1864 the eldest daughter of Mr. John Dewe, Resident Magistrate of Tokomairiro, Otago.