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

Mr. Frederick Wayne

Mr. Frederick Wayne , J.P., Old Colonist, Milton, represented the constituency of Hampden in the General Assembly during the sixties for three sessions, two of which were held in Auckland, and the last at Wellington after the removal of the seat of Government. Owing to unforseen losses amongst his flocks, he withdrew from politics in order to cope with the diseases then prevalent amongst sheep and cattle. Mr Wayne is the second son of the Rev. W. H. Wayne, late vicar of Much Wenlock, Shropshire, and was born in the year 1834, in Derbyshire. He was educated at Bridgenorth school, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He afterwards studied at the School of Mines, London, to qualify as an expert in the purchase of lands impregnated with minerals. Mr. Wayne arrived in Sydney in 1859, and reached Port Lyttelton on the 1st of January, 1860. He entered into partnership with Messrs Rowley and Hamilton, and they purchased a run on the Maniototo Plains. In 1871 Mr. Wayne purchased the Akatore estate, near Milton, which he rolinquished about 1885, and since then he has carried on the business of a land agent. For a time he represented Glenledi riding in the Bruce County Council, and was made a Justice of the Peace in 1862, by the Whitaker-Fox Government. In the year 1864 he was married to a daughter of the Rev. George Barber, M.A., Queen's College, Cambridge, and their family consists of four sons and one daughter. Mr. Wayne has always taken an active part in developing the pastoral and agricultural resources of the Province of Otago, and, like a great many more of the early pastoral settlers, who practically opened up the land for those who succeeded them, he sowed, but others are now reaping the fruits of his labour.