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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Mr. Joseph Sykes Webb

Mr. Joseph Sykes Webb became a member of the City Council for High Ward in 1877, and was re-elected in the following year. He resigned on the 20th of April, 1880. Mr. Webb arrived in New Zealand from Sydney, in 1859, and carried on business in Dunedin, in an extensive way, as a general merchant. He was also connected with the newspaper “Otago Colonist,” and afterwards started a weekly paper, of which he was editor and proprietor. Mr. Webb subsequently went to Honolulu, but afterwards returned to Oamaru, where he resided until his death.