Title: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

Author: Cyclopedia Company Limited

Publication details: The Cyclopedia Company, Limited, 1897, Wellington

Part of: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand

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

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Mr. Frank Callender, the Curator of the Nursery of the Momahaki Experimental Station, was born in 1864 in Glasgow, and was educated at the Glasgow Academy, afterwards attending the London University to study botanic and organic chemistry. After serving five years at various horticultural establishments in England and Scotland, he spent eighteen months in the United States, where he gained further experience in his profession. Mr. Callender studied viticulture in the South of France, and on his return to England he managed a large establishment for supplying fruit and flowers to the Covent Garden market. After seven years in this position the state of his health caused him to seek a more genial clime. On his arrival in New Zealand in 1895, he was appointed to the office he now fills. He is a member of the Royal Horticultural Society; his father is well known in English commercial circles as the founder and organiser of the Callender Electric Cable Management Company, now in charge of Mr. Callender's elder brother.