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

Wyeth, Charles

Wyeth, Charles , Gardener, Woodlands. Mr Wyeth was born in 1843, in Wellington, where he was educated. He was afterwards employed in farm work with his brother at the Upper Hutt, and in 1870 removed to Southland, where he has since resided. He acquired his present property, consisting of twenty-four acres of freehold, in 1876, and has since devoted himself to market gardening. Mr Wyeth was for several years secretary of the Woodlaiwds school committee, and was twenty years a director of the Southland Caledonian Society, for which he acted as handicapper for twenty-four years; and in 1903 he was presented with a gold chronometer watch, and elected as a life member of the society in recognition of his long services. He is also handicapper for the Otago Caledonian Society. During the Maori disturbances in the North Island, Mr Wyeth served for six years in the Taiti Rifle Volunteers. He was married, in 1874, to a daughter of Mr Joseph Sheriff, of Invercargill, and has six sons and six daughters, and ten grand-children.