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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

Social

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The Greytown Working Men's Club was established in 1878. The freehold premises situated in the main street contain a fine reading room, which is supplied with all the latest papers and periodicals. There are two large glass cases filled with specimens of the various New Zealand ores, prepared by Sir James Hector. There is also a spacious billiard-room, fitted with one of Allcock's tables. Leading from the reading room is a card room and the refreshment bar. There is also a large social building where meetings are held periodically. The officers for 1896 are: Messrs. J. Baillie (president), R. Bright (vice-president), J. Fuller, J. Baillie, and Mr. Bey (trustees), Mr. D. P. Loasby being secretary and treasurer, and Mr. G. Lackland, custodian. The members belonging to the club number 152.

Greytown Masonic Lodge, No. 74, N.Z.C., was established in 1870. The officers (1896) are: W.M., Bro. R. W. Tate; S.W., Bro. C. M. Rogers; J.W., Bro, J. Fabian; S.D., Bro. J. Richards; J.D., Bro. C. J. Beard; T.G., Bro. W. E. Axup; secretary, Bro. H. J. Roche. The meetings are held in the Masonic Hall, Greytown, on the Friday evening nearest full moon in each month.

Loyal Greytown Lodge of Oddfellows, No. 361. Officers (1896): Messrs. J. Fuller, J. Dockery, and G. E. Humphries (trustees), W. A. Tate (treasurer), D. P. Loasby (secretary), and Dr. Bey (surgeon). This Lodge was established in 1879. The members' roll numbers forty, meetings being held every alternate Wednesday in the Oddfellows' Hall. The funds now amount to £1181.

Mr. D. P. Loasby, the Secretary of the Oddfellows' Lodge, and Secretary and Treasurer to the Greytown Working Men's Club, was born in New South Wales, coming to Greytown in 1879. Mr. Loasby was in business as a general storekeeper till 1891, when he sold out, and has only recently entered again into business. He is local agent for the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company. On two occasions Mr. Loasby was a member of the Greytown Borough Council. He has been secretary of the Oddfellows' Lodge for seventeen years. For two terms he was Grand Master of the Order for Wellington District.

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Greytown Lodge of the Ancient Order of Foresters was formed on the 29th of June, 1870, the first officers being Messrs. E. Green (chief ranger), J. Baillie (sub-ranger), H. J. Nickless (secretary). The officers (1896) are:—Messrs. E. Harrison (chief ranger), W. H. Day (secretary), and J. Fuller (treasurer).

Mr. James Baillie, one of the founders of the Foresters' Lodge in Greytown, was born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, near Glasgow, in 1838, and was educated at the local schools. After working for some time under his father, and later as a journey-man at the joinery trade, he left Glasgow for New Zealand, per ship “Robert Henderson,” in 1860, landing at Dunedin the same year. Mr. Baillie spent some years on the Otago goldfields, but did not meet with a great amount of success. Subsequently he worked at his trade for some time in Port Chalmers, and then came to Wellington to build a residence for Captain Thomas Robinson, marine surveyor. Going to Greytown on a similar errand, he was induced to stay, and has resided there ever since that time, Mr. Baillie held a seat on the local Borough Council for a number of years, was chairman of the Greytown Town Lands Trust for twenty years, was one of the founders of the Foresters' Lodge in Greytown, and has been a trustee of the Lodge since 1870.

Mr. Jas Baillie.

Mr. Jas Baillie.

Greytown Cricket Club was formed in 1867, and plays on the Greytown Recreation Reserve, rented from the Borough Council, where there is a first-class pavilion and a good supply of cricketing materials. The membership consists of thirty-two playing and fifteen honorary members, the annual subscription being ten shillings. The colours are blue and white. The Club plays two elevens, which compete in the championship contests. The Club's first eleven has won the district championship for the years 1894–5 and 1895–6, and sent five players to the Wairarapa representative team in 1895–6. A striking peculiarity in connection with the Club's 1895–6 first eleven was that ten out of the eleven were left-handed batsmen. The officers for that season were Messrs. J. P. Russell (president), W. C. Buchanan, M.H.R., J. D. Heagerty, C. J. Tully, H. S. Izard (vice-presidents), W. Judd (captain), T. J. Rowse (deputy captain and secretary), W. J. Knell (treasurer).

Mr. William Judd, Captain of the Greytown Cricket Club, was born in Greytown in 1864. His father, Mr. John Judd, a very old settler, is referred to elsewhere. Educated at the public school, he went to work on his father's farm. In 1889 he took a farm at Mauriceville, where he has since resided. His cricketing career began in his school days. Joining the Greytown Cricket Club in 1882, Mr. Judd was chosen in the first eleven. A left-handed batsman, his first conspicuous appearance was for the local Greytown Club against Wellington Club, when he scored ninety-four, and as a bowler took eleven wickets for twenty-two runs. For this fine performance the Greytown citizens presented him with a silver-mounted bat. He went to Auckland with the Wellington representatives in 1885–6, gaining the second best batting average and the best bowling record. He has since played for the Midland Club, Wellington, and the Wairarapa representative eleven. Mr. Judd has also appeared in the Greytown Football Club's first fifteen.

Mr. Wm. Judd.

Mr. Wm. Judd.

Greytown Football Club, formed in 1878, was connected with the Wellington Rugby Union till 1886, when the Wairarapa Union was founded. The Club has held the Wairarapa Union's championship since its establishment, with few exceptions. For the last twelve years the Club has played on the Greytown Recreation Reserve. The colours are red and black. The membership numbers forty, the subscription being five shillings. The officers (1896) were:—Messrs. J. P. Russell (patron), C. Rodgers (president), C. J. Tully, Dr. Bey, C. J. Beard, H. Udy, junr., R. G. Welch, A. Gallon, and J. Rea (vice-presidents), E. W. Udy (captain), A. Porritt (secretary), C. J. Beard (treasurer), C. Cress, C. J. Beard, and H. O. Tully (delegates to the Union).

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Mr. Edwin William Udy, Captain Greytown Football Club, was born in 1867 in Greytown, where he was educated. In 1891 he was married to the eldest daughter of Mr. Duncan Campbell, of Westport, and has two daughters and one son. As a footballer, he commenced at fourteen years of age, and has played every season since. He played first for the Wanderers, joining the Greytown Football Club at seventeen, when he was admitted to the first fifteen. In 1889 he became captain, which position he has held for four successive years. For ten years he has played in the Wairarapa representative team, filling at different times the positions of full-back, three-quarter back, and forward. As a forward he has few equals in New Zealand. Mr. Udy's height is six feet one inch, and his playing weight fifteen stone. For a number of years he scored in almost every match he played in, and is still the terror of opposing players. At the time of writing he has been nominated for the New Zealand representative team to play Queensland. Mr. Udy is a member of the management committee of the Wairarapa Rugby Union. In cricket, too, he has a brilliant record. Having joined the Greytown Cricket Club in 1888–9, after playing two seasons in the second eleven he was chosen for the first. When in the second eleven he won the baat for the best bowling record, and since playing in the first has won the ball presented for the best bowling average every year since 1891–2. He has played in the Wairarapa representative eleven since 1894–5. He has also been a member of the Greytown Rifles.

Mr. E. W. Udy, Club Captain.

Mr. E. W. Udy, Club Captain.

Knell, Mrs. A., Teacher of Music, Greytown. Mrs. Knell is the widow of the late Rev. Amos Knell, R.D., formerly curate of the whole of the Wairarapa district, particulars of whom are given herein under “Ecclesiastical.”

The Wairarapa Standard (John Robert and George William Nicol, proprietors), Main Street, Greytown. The Standard, which is the oldest paper in the district, being established in 1866, was originally known as The Mercury, the late Mr. Edward Grigg being the founder. On the death of Mr. Grigg, the late Mr. A. K. Arnot became proprietor. Mr. Richard Wakelin conducted it for some years, subsequently giving it its present name. He was joined by Mr. Payton, who, after Mr. Wakelin's death, started the Wairarapa Daily, and Mr. W. C. Nation was proprietor from 1881 to 1893, when he sold out to Mr. Roydhouse, who relinquished The Standard to the present proprietors in 1896. The Standard, a four page penny paper, is published three times a week, and circulates throughout the whole of the Wairarapa Valley. The Standard office occupies a central position in the township. Job printing in all its branches is executed on the premises, the staff including the only known Maori compositor in New Zealand.

Mr. George William Nicol was born in 1870 in Christchurch, where he received his early education, completing his school career at the Masteton High School. Mr. Nicol learned the printing trade in The Wairarapa Daily Times office, remaining ten years, rising from apprentice to the position of manager of the jobbing department. He left The Times office to join his brother in the present business. For nine years Mr. Nicol was a member of the Masterton Brass Band, in which he played the bass. He is also a vocalist of some ability, and has frequently appeared on the concert platform. Mr. Nicol, who is unmarried, takes a keen interest in athletics and sport generally.

Mr. Richard Wakelin, the founder of the Wairarapa Standard, was born at Barnical Hall, Warwickshire, in 1816. Educated at Rugby, he left England for New York and Upper Canada on a temperance lecturing tour when only eighteen years of age. After twelve months he returned to Warwickshire, and commenced literary work. After another trip to America, he settled down to journalism in England, and while keeping a bookseller's shop in Coventry, edited the Temperance Gazette. In the Isle of Man he started a paper on Radical lines called The Cause of the People, but as the Newspaper Reform Bill required £500, he ceased publishing. Coming to Wellington with his wife and family in 1850 by the ship “Eden,” he became editor of the New Zealand Independent, and subsequently of the New Zealand Advertiser. Removing to Greytown, Mr. Wakelin edited the Wairarapa Mercury for three years. After starting the Wairarapa Journal, which lived only a
Mr. And Mrs. Richard Wakelin.

Mr. And Mrs. Richard Wakelin.

page 884 short time, he founded and edited the New Zealand Mail for Mr. Thos. McKenzie, in Wellington. Mr. Wakelin again took the Mercury, changing its name to the Wairarapa Standard, which he conducted until his death in 1882, at the age of 66. His widow, who stik survives at the advanced age of 84, resides with her son, Mr. R. A. Wakelin, in Greytown, Of the family—three sons and a daughter—one son lives at Greytown, and another, Mr. G. K. Wakelin, is the editor of the Newtown Advocate, Wellington. The eldest son, Mr. T. Wakelin, and the daughter, are dead. Mr. Wakelin published the History of Politics in 1877, and a pamphlet entitled Small Farms. He was of a retiring disposition, and took little part in public bodies.
Legal.

Izard, Henry Stratton, Barrister and Solicitor, Main Street, Greytown North. P.O. Box 1. Bankers, Bank of New Zenland. Branches at Carterton and Featherston. London agents, Mr. E. C. Holmes, 12 Bedford Row; Wellington agents, Messrs. Bell, Gully and Izard. Private residence, Kuratawhiti Street. Mr. Izard is a native of Wellington. He was educated at Harrow, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and studied law at Lincoln's Inn, London, being admitted as a barrister in 1887 and a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in the same year. He was for two years in partnership with Mr. W. T. L. Travers, Wellington, as Travers and Izard, The present business was established in 1890. Mr. Izard is solicitor to the Bank of New Zealand, Carterton, and to the New Zealand Accident Insurance Company.

Phillips, Coleman, Barrister and Solicitor, Greytown. Mr. Phillips established his present practice in 1894. Being a member of the South Wairarapa County Council, he is more fully referred to in that connection under the heading “Carterton.”

Tate, Robert Ward, Solicitor, Main Street, Greytown. P.O. Box 4. Bankers. Bank of New Zealand. London agent, Mr. W. C. Goulding, 81 Finsbury Pavement, E.C. Wellington agents, Messrs. Kirk and Atkinson. Private residence, Great Frederick Street. Mr. Tate is a native of Wellington, and has been educated in the Colony. He passed the final examination in March 1886, and was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand by Mr. Justice Johnston. He is solicitor to the Greytown Borough Council and Town Lands Trust, also to the Waiohini River Board. He is local solicitor to the Bank of New Zealand, and solicitor to the Investment and Loan Society. He is also “worshipful master” to the Grey town Lodge of Freemasons. The business was established by Mr. W. G. Beard many years ago. Mr. Tate acquired the connection in December, 1888, and has successfully conducted the business since the latter date.