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

Brown, Moses

Brown, Moses , Miner, Kyeburn Diggings. This well known settler was born at Sawdon, Yorkshire, England, in 1855, and was brought up to agriculture. Subsequently he became a puddler, was engaged in connection with iron-works, and came to Port Chalmers, by the ship “Coromandel,” in 1880. He has long been known as a prominent miner and water-race owner in the Kyeburn district, and one of the water-races, in which he is concerned, is fourteen miles long. Mr. Brown has had fair success as a miner, and is a director of the Kyeburn Dredging Company. He resides at Kyeburn Diggings, and holds an occupation license of sixty acres, in addition to an acre of residence area. Mr. Brown was married, in 1883, to a daughter of Mr. J. Osborne, of Thetford, Norfolk, England, and has five sons and one daughter. Mrs Brown died on the 17th of April, 1901, aged forty-eight years.

Mr M. Brown.

Mr M. Brown.