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

Gard, William

Gard, William , Farmer, Rock Farm, Wharekuri. Mr. Gard was born on the 14th of March, 1847, in Tasmania, and accompanied page 580 his father, Mr. Joseph Gard, to the Gabriel's Gully rush in 1882. He worked at the mines for some time, and was afterwards employed in carrying on the roads for some years, first to Gabriel's Gully, and afterwards between Oamaru and Rocky Point, Cadrona and the Dunstan. In 1902 Mr. Gard acquired a carrying business on the Waitaki. He bought his first portion of Rock Farm in 1880 and has now increased his property to 272 acres of freehold, on which there is a comfortable homestead, and he also farms 240 acres in another part of the district. Mr. Gard was married, in 1882, to a daughter of Mr. Charles McBean, of Duntroon, and has two sons and two daughters.