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

Mr. John Hood

Mr. John Hood has been prominently connected with the business life of Oamaru for many years. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1835, was brought up in Ayrshire, and served an apprenticeship of five years to the drapery trade. In 1881 he came to Port Chalmers, by the ship “Lady Egidia,” and after a year in Dunedin he settled in Oamaru, in 1863. There were comparatively few buildings in the township at that time, and Mr. Hood established the first draper's shop in the district in March, 1863, at the foot of Wansbeck Street. Ten years later he and his partner, Mr. John Shennan, built the large shop at the junction of Thames Street and Itchen Street, and there business was carried on till 1883, when the property was sold. For six years afterwards Mr. Hood conducted business in Waterloo House in Thames Street. He afterwards disposed of that business, and has been in the employment of Messrs R. Brown and Co. since 1894. As a Freemason Mr. Hood is attached to Lodge Waitaki, E.C. He was married, in 1860, to a daughter of the late Mr. James Flett, of Fraserborough, Scotland, and has seven sons and three daughters.