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

Author: Cyclopedia Company Limited

Publication details: The Cyclopedia Company, Limited, 1905, Christchurch

Part of: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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Newton And Borton (Heber Newton and Ivon Arnold Borton), Barristers and Solicitors, Tyno Street, Oamaru. Telephone, 58, P.O. Box, 25. Bankers, Bank of New Zealand. Private residence, Hull Street. Mr. Newton established his practice in Oamaru in 1877. In 1900 he admitted his son-in-law, Mr. J. A. Borton, into partnership, and the style of the firm is Newton and Borton. Mr. Newton was born at Kensington in 1844, and was educated principally at Prighton. He came to Lyttelton in the ship “Balaclava,” in 1863, was articled in Christchurch to Dr. C. J. Foster, LL.D., and was admitted a barrister in 1868, being the second candidate who at that time had passed the special barristers' examination. In the same year he established himself in Greymouth, where he remained till 1876. After a visit to England, which occupied a year, Mr. Newton returned to New Zealand, and settled at Oamaru. where he established his present practice. He is solicitor to the local branch of the Bank of New Zealand, Union Bank of Australia, Ltd., and the Bank of New South Wales; also to the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, New Zealand Insurance, Company, New Zealand Shipping Company, the North Otago Dairy Company, Dalgety and Co., and the North Otago Licensed Victuallers Association. Mr. Newton is also local solicitor to the Advances to Settlers office. He is a director of the member Caledonian Society, and has been a member of the committee of the Oamaru Lawn Tennis Club for ten years, and president of the Oamaru Football Club since 1893. Mr. Newton was married in 1867 to a daughter of the late Mr. Hillier, of Battersea, but in 1897 Mrs. Newton died, leaving him with one son and two daughters.