The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Price, John Morgan
Price, John Morgan
, Hawthorn Farm, Athol. Mr Price holds 5,600 acres of freehold and 9,000 acres of leasehold, where he carries on sheep farming, and also does a fair amount of cropping. He was born in Breconshire, South Wales, England, in 1836, and was brought up to farming. In
1860, he arrived in Melbourne, and three years later came to New Zealand. Mr Price worked on the diggings for about two years, and afterwards followed station life for some time. He then bought ten acres at Athol—the nucleus of his present property—which he added to, acre by acre. Mr Price has served on the Athol school committee for sixteen years, and is also a member of the Athol Cemetery Trust. He was married, in 1867, to a daughter of the late Mr Alexander McDonald, farmer, Riverton, and has a family of four sons and four daughters.
Gerstenkorn, photo.
Mr. J. M. Price.