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

Mr. John Henry

Mr. John Henry , Permanent Secretary of Loyal Mataura Falls Lodge and a Past Grand of the Order, was born in 1863, in Kent, England. He attended school in his native place, and was apprenticed to engineering at Messrs Spalding and Hodge's paper works, Dartford. For three years subsequently he was in Edinburgh, as an improver, and for eighteen months he was employed by Messrs J. and E. Hall, Dartford, freezing machine manufacturers. He then entered the service of Messrs Maisin and Scott, paper making engineers, with whom he remained till 1893, when he was sent to New Zealand to erect the modern plant at the Mataura Falls Paper Mill, and arrived at Wellington by the s.s. “Rimutaka.” Having completed his mission. Mr Henry continued to supervise the machinery as engineer for eight years. As a volunteer. Mr Henry served four years in the 2nd West Kent Queen's Own. He joined Lodge Good Intent, Manchester Unity, at Dartford in 1880, was transferred to the United Gore Lodge on reaching New Zealand, but afterwards took a prominent part in founding Mataura Falls Lodge. He was married, in 1894, to a daughter of the late Mr Charles Humphries, of Mataura, and has five sons and one daughter.