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

Dr. John Stubbs Wait

Dr. John Stubbs Wait was Mayor of Oamaru for two years, and chairman of the Harbour Board for a similar period. He was born at Warrington, Lancashire, England, educated in Manchester, and studied at the Manchester Infirmary. In 1853 and 1858 he took his degrees (Member of the Royal College of Surgeons England, Licentiate of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow, and Licentiate of Midwifery, Glasgow), and became the assistant surgeon to the 7th Lancashire Militia. He arrived in Port Chalmers in November, 1863, by the ship “Persia.” Dr. Wait settled in Oamaru, and practised his profession for many years in the district. As a prominent Freemason he was the founder of Lodge Waitaki, of which he was the Master for three years. He laid the foundation stone of the first jetty in Oamaru, turned the first sod of the Waitaki-Moeraki railway, served as chairman of the Kakanui Road Board, and held other public positions. Dr. Wait was married, in 1854, to the daughter of Mr. Edward Dawson, of Bury, Lancashire, and has two sons and one daughter.